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

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

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

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.