Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Ask the young. They know everything.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.