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

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

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

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