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Van Wyck Brooks - From the Complaining category:
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. (Van Wyck Brooks)
Van Wyck Brooks - From the Creativity category:
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. (Van Wyck Brooks)
Van Wyck Brooks - From the Ego category:
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. (Van Wyck Brooks)
Van Wyck Brooks - From the Genius category:
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. (Van Wyck Brooks)
Van Wyck Brooks - From the Studio category:
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. (Van Wyck Brooks)
Van Wyck Brooks - From the Success category:
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. (Van Wyck Brooks)
Van Wyck Brooks - From the Vanity category:
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. (Van Wyck Brooks)
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