Critics, Like The Rest Of Mankind, Are

The Animadversions Of Critics Are Commonly Such As May Easily Provoke The Sedatest Writer To Some Quickness Of Resentment And Asperity Of Reply.

The Limbs Will Quiver And Move After The Soul Is Gone.

It Is A Maxim That No Man Was Ever Enslaved By Influence While He Was Fit To Be Free.

He That Floats Lazily Down The Stream, In Pursuit Of Something Borne Along By The Same Current, Will Find Himself Indeed Moved Forward; But Unless He Lays His Hand To The Oar, And Increases His Speed By His Own Labour, Must Be Always At The Same Distance From That Which He Is Following.

Advice Is Offensive, It Shows Us That We Are Known To Others As Well As To Ourselves.