There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

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

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

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

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

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

What is the city but the people?

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

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

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

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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

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