One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

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 average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.