The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.