Frank Moore Colby

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? ”

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. ”

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. ”

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ”

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. ”

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. ”

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? ”

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. ”

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. ”

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. ”