Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

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.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.