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

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

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

If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.