Thomas W. Higginson Quotes

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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

When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

grammar

There is certainly no defense or water-proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.  The man who has it can rarely be cast down for a great while by external events; and it is much the same with a nation.

sense of humor