Top 6 Jacob August Riis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

— Jacob August Riis

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2. “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.”

— Jacob August Riis

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3. “Some defeats are only installments to victory.”

— Jacob August Riis

4. “The slum is the measure of civilization.”

— Jacob August Riis

5. “The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.”

— Jacob August Riis

6. “Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.”

— Jacob August Riis

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