Postcard of bust by Ernfred Anderson (b.1896), Elmira sculpter. The bust is part of the Elmira College collection at Elmira, New York.

ELOQUENCE

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
- Letter to Professor Thomas Lounsbury, 21 July 1904

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry.
- "William Dean Howells" essay