It Is Always Good Men Who Do

I Am An Anarchist In Politics And An Impressionist In Art As Well As A Symbolist In Literature. Not That I Understand What These Terms Mean, But I Take Them To Be All Merely Synonyms Of Pessimist.

One Could Not Stay A Month Without Loving The Shabby Town

The Idea That Any Personal Deity Could Find Pleasure Or Profit In Torturing A Poor Woman, By Accident, With A Fiendish Cruelty Known To Man Only In Perverted And Insane Temperaments, Could Not Be Held For A Moment. For Pure Blasphemy, It Made Pure Atheism A Comfort.

As For America, It Is The Ideal Fruit Of All Your Youthful Hopes And Reforms. Everybody Is Fairly Decent, Respectable, Domestic, Bourgeois, Middle-class, And Tiresome. There Is Absolutely Nothing To Revile Except That It's A Bore.

As History Stands, It Is A Sort Of Chinese Play, Without End And Without Lesson.