It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.
Robert Wilson LyndKeats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.
Robert Wilson LyndIt is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
Robert Wilson LyndThere is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Wilson LyndNo man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.
Robert Wilson LyndWhen people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd