Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. |
