Simeon Strunsky — American Writer born on July 23, 1879, died on February 05, 1948

Simeon Strunsky was a Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialist for the New York Times for more than two decades... (wikipedia)

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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.