The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder,… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
