“Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.