Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.