The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
Artists are always young.
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.