The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
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.