Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes.... They are the supreme realists of the race.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.