In literature imitations do not imitate

Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Scientists seek to know the mind of god while engineers seek to imitate Him.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades