You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.