There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

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

The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.