Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. Obloquy is, to most men, more painful than death.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Take each mans censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

A good writer is not per se a good book critic. No more than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.