Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.