“What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?”

“The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.”

“Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.”

“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”

“You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.”

“Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?”

“More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!”

“Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.”

“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”

“I have thrust myself into this maze,Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.”

“Ambition's debt is paid.”

“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”

“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.”

“London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.”

“I hope to see London once ere I die.”

“Travelers must be content.”

“Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,And so am come abroad to see the world.”