City and Everyday Life

He knew the tavernes wel in every toun.

Ships are only hulls, high walls are nothing, When no life moves in the empty passageways.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.