If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.