“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

“None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.”

“French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.”

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. ”

“I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.”