If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.

In public we say the race is to the strongest; in private we know that a lopsided man runs the fastest along the little side-hills of success

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?