Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.