Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.