Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
From Edgar Allan Poe
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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