No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

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

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

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.

... France is the genius among nations.