I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.