The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

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

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

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

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.

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.