It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.
The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.
A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.
Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.
The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.
Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.
Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.