All Great Authors Are Seers.

Endeavour To Be Faithful, And If There Is Any Beauty In Your Thought, Your Style Will Be Beautiful; If There Is Any Real Emotion To Express, The Expression Will Be Moving.

I Have Always Considered The Merry Wives One Of The Worst Plays, If Not Altogether The Worst, That Shakespeare Has Left Us. The Wit For The Most Part Is Dreary Or Foolish; The Tone Is Coarse And Farcical; And The Characters Want The Fine Distinctive Touches He So Well Knew How To Give. If Some Luckless Wight Had Written Such A Comedy In Our Time, I Should Like To See What The Critics Would Say To It?

Character Is Built Out Of Circumstances. From Exactly The Same Materials, One Man Builds Palaces, While Another Builds Hovels.

If You Feel Yourself To Be Above The Mass, Speak So As To Raise The Mass To The Height Of Your Argument.

Most Expositions Of Aristotle's Doctrines, When They Have Not Been Dictated By A Spirit Of Virulent Detraction, Or Unsympathetic Indifference, Have Carefully Suppressed All, Or Nearly All, The Absurdities, And Only Retained What Seemed Plausible And Consistent. But In This Procedure Their Historical Significance Disappears.