Above All Nations Is Humanity.

There Are The Manufacturing Multitudes Of England; They Must Have Work, And Find Markets For Their Work; If Machines And The Black Country Are Ugly, Famine Would Be Uglier Still.

It Is Evident That In The Period Designated As That Of The Kings, When Rome Commenced Her Career Of Conquest, She Was, For That Time And Country, A Great And Wealthy City.

America Is Supposed To Be Given Over To Ugliness. There Are A Good Many Ugly Things There And The Ugliest Are The Most Pretentious.

As To London We Must Console Ourselves With The Thought That If Life Outside Is Less Poetic Than It Was In The Days Of Old, Inwardly Its Poetry Is Much Deeper.

The Materials Of The Novelist Must Be Real; They Must Be Gathered From The Field Of Humanity By His Actual Observation.