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

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.