Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.