A clergyman, again, can hardly ever allow himself to look facts fairly in the face. It is his profession to support one side; it i...s impossible, therefore, for him to make an unbiased examination of the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, becaus...e it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books ... we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things tha...t do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »