Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. - Charles Dudley Warner

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

We select and set aside as literature that which is original, the product of what we call genius.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.