It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.