If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

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

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.