New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.