Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

I was raised to farm work.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.