God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

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.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.