I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

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.

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.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

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.

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.