“Joy likens the house to a geode, the coarseness of the rough steel exterior contrasting with the refinement of the interior.”

“What is called harshness, crabbedness, or even coarseness in his words and allusions, may seem to him only the assertion of healthy, manly taste against a feeble and insipid conventionalism.”

“Strange fact, but nonetheless true, that this very coarseness of humor and illustration obtained for him immunity from persecution.”