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.

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

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

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?

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

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

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.