Statistics are the heart of democracy.

- Simeon Strunsky

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 gran…

- Simeon Strunsky

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

- Simeon Strunsky

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

- Simeon Strunsky

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.

- Simeon Strunsky

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

- Simeon Strunsky

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.

- Simeon Strunsky