"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, — as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their han…"

"Kean is original; but he copies from himself. His rapid descents from the hyper-tragic to the infra-colloquial, thoug…"

"The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity."

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in the…"

"The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of …"

"The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."

"Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing."

"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more…"

"That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the c…"

"Schiller has the material sublime."