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.

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

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

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

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

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

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.