The Americans Have Always Been Food, Sex,

I Would Rather Take Hellebore Than Spend A Conversation With A Good, Little Man.

Nothing In Our Times Has Become So Unattractive As Virtue.

The Majority Of Persons Choose Their Wives With As Little Prudence As They Eat. They See A Troll With Nothing Else To Recommend Her But A Pair Of Thighs And Choice Hunkers, And So Smart To Void Their Seed That They Marry Her At Once. They Imagine They Can Live In Marvelous Contentment With Handsome Feet And Ambrosial Buttocks. Most Men Are Accredited Fools Shortly After They Leave The Womb.

Herman Melville Was As Separated From A Civilized Literature As The Lost Atlantis Was Said To Have Been From The Great Peoples Of The Earth.

Hardly A Book Of Human Worth, Be It Heaven's Own Secret, Is Honestly Placed Before The Reader; It Is Either Shunned, Given A Periclean Funeral Oration In A Hundred And Fifty Words, Or Interred In The Potter's Field Of The Newspapers Back Pages.