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.

Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

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.

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

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

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

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

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

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

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.

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.

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

What is the city but the people?