Politics Are A Very Unsatisfactory Game.

My Favorite Figure Of The American Author Is That Of A Man Who Breeds A Favorite Dog, Which He Throws Into The Mississippi River For The Pleasure Of Making A Splash. The River Does Not Splash, But It Drowns The Dog.

Morality Is A Private And Costly Luxury.

The People Of Virginia Declare And Make Known That The Powers Granted Under The Constitution Being Derived From The People Of The United States May Be Resumed By Them Whensoever The Same Shall Be Perverted To Their Injury Or Oppression And That Every.

The Great Word Evolution Had Not Yet, In 1860, Made A New Religion Of History, But The Old Religion Had Preached The Same Doctrinefor A Thousand Years Without Finding In The Entire History Of Rome Anything But Flat Contradiction.

American Art, Like The American Language And American Education, Was As Far As Possible Sexless.