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

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

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

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

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

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.