Think you that if I had said that New York would be destroyed by a tidal wave, I should have urged the purchase of property only sixty miles away from this city, as a sanitarium site, and a place from which New York could be worked?—Letter 176, 1903. {Ev 388.1}

Tænk om jeg havde sagt at New York ville udslettes ved en tidevandsbølge, skulle jeg have opfordret til at købe ejendomme kun tres miles borte fra denne by, som et sted for et sanatorium, et sted hvorfra New York kan bearbejdes? – Brev 176, 1903.