The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.

Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.