Passion makes every detail important.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.