There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.

New York is the great stone desert.

Everything changes but change