Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.