No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.