Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

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.

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

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

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

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.