In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.