Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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.