No One In This Country Has Any

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

A Man Who Has The Courage Of His Platitudes Is Always A Successful Man. The Instructed Man Is Ashamed To Pronounce In An Orphic Manner What Everybody Knows, And Because He Is Silent People Think He Is Making Fun Of Them. They Like A Man Who Expresses Their Own Superficial Thoughts In A Manner That Appears To Be Profound. This Enables Them To Feel That They Are Themselves Profound.

Those Of Our Writers Who Have Possessed A Vivid Personal Talent Have Been Paralyzed By A Want Of Social Background.

No One In This Country Has Any Root Anywhere; We Don't Live In America, We Board Here, We Are Like Spiders That Run Over The Surface Of The Water.

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.