No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob.
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.
The only time you have a free press is when you own one.
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.
Change is not progress.
One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.