When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. – Thomas W. Higginson
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. – Thomas W. Higginson
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. – Thomas W. Higginson
