The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.