Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giv…

- T. E. Brown

A rich man's joke is always funny.

- T. E. Brown

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not …

- T. E. Brown

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!

- T. E. Brown

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly a…

- T. E. Brown

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me agai…

- T. E. Brown

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good tas…

- T. E. Brown

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

- T. E. Brown