No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.More Van Wyck Brooks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.More Van Wyck Brooks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Van Wyck Brooks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.More Van Wyck Brooks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?More Van Wyck Brooks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]