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

Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

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

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

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