To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. - Thomas W. Higginson,

To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.