New York: A third-rate Babylon.

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor