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

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.

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.

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

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

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

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.