“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”

“Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.”

“If you would know and not be known live in a city.”

“If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.”

“Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”

“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.”

“But youre out of another world old kid You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.”

“[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of greyWhat Id seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hol...”

“I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed....”