“You can be desperate but do not be hasty. No city is built in a day”

“Things which are not" are indeed mightier than "things that are". In all ages men have fought most desperately for beautiful cities yet to be built and gardens yet to be planted.”

“Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.”

“The city is builtTo music, therefore never built at all,And therefore built forever.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”

“The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones.""That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.”