1843 – 1916 • American • Writer
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
In art economy is always beauty.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
