No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.