As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We’re in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek)