Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

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.

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

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

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.