Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

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

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

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

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.