The Writer Is Important Only By Dint

No One Is Fit To Judge A Book Until He Has Rounded Cape Horn In A Sailing Vessel, Until He Has Bumped Into Two Or Three Icebergs, Until He Has Been Lost In The Sands Of The Desert, Until He Has Spent A Few Years In The House Of The Dead.

It Is Not That The French Are Not Profound, But They All Express Themselves So Well That We Are Led To Take Their Geese For Swans.

Nothing Is Sadder Than The Consequences Of Having Worldly Standards Without Worldly Means.

Longfellow Is To Poetry What The Barrel-organ Is To Music.

Once You Have A Point Of View All History Will Back You Up.