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.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

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

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

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.