Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.

A man must serve his time to every trade Save Censure-Critics all are ready made.

As soon Seek roses in December-ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff, Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in Critics.

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain. We are not afraid of the noble rain of criticism because with it will flourish the magnificent garden of music.

Criticism is easy art is difficult.

You know who critics are?-the men who have failed in literature and art.

Do any newspaper commentators really write with the fear that their opinions will be read twenty-five, fifty, and a hundred years hence and be compared with the verdicts of later generations? If so, they have absurd and childish notions. Most opinions printed in a newspaper are for a glance at the breakfast table and then the wastebasket.

There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit-bound.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.