Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Jean de la BruyereThe punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
Jean de la BruyereIncivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.
Jean de la BruyereNo road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it
Jean de la Bruyere