Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

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 science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

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

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.