If I Were To Live

One Might Enumerate The Items Of High Civilization, As It Exists In Other Countries, Which Are Absent From The Texture Of American Life, Until It Should Become A Wonder To Know What Was Left.

Autobiography May Be The Preeminent Kind Of American Expression.

Though It Might Have Its Momentary Alarms, Paternity Is Not An Exciting Vocation.

He Was There Or Was Not There: Not There If I Didn't See Him.

The Face Of Nature And Civilization In This Our Country Is To A Certain Point A Very Sufficient Literary Field. But It Will Yield Its Secrets Only To A Really Grasping Imagination. To Write Well And Worthily Of American Things One Need Even More Than Elsewhere To Be A Master.