You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

America is not a country, it is a world.

The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.