there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

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

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.