What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

It seems to be one of Nature’s laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had not worn well. At the age of seven he had been an extraordinarily beautiful child, but after that he had gone all to pieces; and now, at the age of twenty-five, it would be idle to deny that he was something of a mess.

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.