The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonIn ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonGenius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson