Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. - Van Wyck Brooks
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
- Van Wyck Brooks
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music. - Van Wyck Brooks
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. - Van Wyck Brooks
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world. - Van Wyck Brooks
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side. - Van Wyck Brooks
Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means. - Van Wyck Brooks
Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in t… - Van Wyck Brooks
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in t…
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. - Van Wyck Brooks
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the po… - Van Wyck Brooks
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the po…
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