Fame: An Embalmer Trembling With Stage Fright.

There Is Only One Honest Impulse At The Bottom Of Puritanism, And That Is The Impulse To Punish The Man With A Superior Capacity For Happiness.

Politics, As Hopeful Men Practise It In The World, Consists Mainly Of The Delusion That A Change In Form Is A Change In Substance.

I Believe That All Government Is Evil, And That Trying To Improve It Is Largely A Waste Of Time.

Never Drink If You've Got Any Work To Do. Never.

Henry James Would Have Been Vastly Improved As A Novelist By A Few Whiffs Of The Chicago Stockyard.