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.

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

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

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

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.