The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.