Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.