Simeon Strunsky quotes:

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.