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 everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

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

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

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

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.