John Churton Collins

"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."

"Churton Collins ... was certainly not the man to grow enthusiastic over every " new thing " that might might loom above the literary horizon. He more often confronted novelty from the peak of than of . Yet it was Churton Collins who alligned with Dante and Milton, and declared that " no poet has made his début with a volume which is at once of such extraordinary merit and so rich in promise.""

"Der Narr scheitert, weil er schwierige Dinge für leicht hält. Der kluge Mann scheitert, weil er leichte Dinge für schwierig hält."