Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.