It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.