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 BruyereThere is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.
Jean de la BruyereThe majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.
Jean de la BruyereThe pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la Bruyere