What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.