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

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.

I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.

One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there. 

We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.