Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

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.

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