Quotes from Brander Matthews

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.