My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

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

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.

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

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.