"I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known…"

"We should never let support blind us, or become a substitute for continuing to be both self-critical, and dedicated t…"

"Whatever else he may do, a critic reveals and criticises himself."

"CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him."

"Great art is a religious function...great criticism is, therefore—since it is necessary for great art—a religious fun…"

"In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, fooli…"

"He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south…"

"I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peep…"

"Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a …"

"They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite."