The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.