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People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me ... by newspapers and the Bible.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.
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.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.
Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
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.
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 creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
