I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.