Artists Are Always Young.

The Critic ... Should Be Not Merely A Poet, Not Merely A Philosopher, Not Merely An Observer, But Tempered Of All Three.

Beware Of Over-great Pleasure In Being Popular Or Even Beloved. As Far As An Amiable Disposition And Powers Of Entertainment Make You So, It Is A Happiness; But If There Is One Grain Of Plausibility, It Is Poison.

Man Is Not Made For Society, But Society Is Made For Man. No Institution Can Be Good Which Does Not Tend To Improve The Individual.

The Use Of Criticism, In Periodical Writing, Is To Sift, Not To Stamp A Work.

Our Desires, Once Realized, Haunt Us Again Less Readily.