If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

—Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

—Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

—Charles Caleb Colton

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

—David Letterman

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth.

—G. K. Chesterton

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

—Michelangelo Antonioni