Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

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 grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

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