April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

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

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.