Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
All progress is experimental.
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.