Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
Thomas Wentworth 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.