I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

The worst government is the most moral.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.