Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

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.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob