The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

How do they taste? They taste like more.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.