Simplicity is the glory of expression.

I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.