Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart

Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

When you are done changing, you're done.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.