Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.

As long as I am mayor of this city [Jersey City, New Jersey] the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Comm

But you shall not escape my iambics.

He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.

"I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true."

Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.

There is an old time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend."

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

Too much of everything is just enough.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

"First World" nations are the ones where people drive Japanese cars; "Second World" nations are where First World residents go on vacation; and "Third World" nations are the ones where people still dive out of trees to prove their manhood.