New York: A third-rate Babylon.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.