We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.