Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.