[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.