It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

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.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.