Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.