The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.