
“It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.”
On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 13
On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 13
“It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.”
On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 13
On Charles Evans Hughes, in November 1909, as quoted in Taft and Roosevelt : The intimate letters of Archie Butt (1930) by Archibald Willingham Butt, p. 224; this has sometimes been paraphrased: "Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."
Letter to Dorothy Miller February 5, 1952; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 193
1950s
Source: Dark Age (2019), Ch. 35: Endure; Virginia, in a recorded message to Darrow