The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.