"There is really no way of considering a book independently of one's special sensations in reading it on a particular …"

"Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods."

"It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

"I believe, that certain people — especially, perhaps, in Britain — have a lifelong appetite for juvenile trash. … You…"

"The more I have thought about Figures of Earth — and its sequel The Silver Stallion — the more remarkable they have c…"

"He was, as painted, aristocratic, beyond any writer I've met, but in a Jeffersonian-American way that brooked no arti…"

"I'm furious at the critical attitude toward Carl Sandburg! It's largely the work of "Bunny" Wilson, who was far from …"

"Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who ar…"

"He was the perfect autodidact. He wanted to know it all."

"Wilson is not like other critics; some critics are boring even when they are original; he fascinates even when he is …"