"It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or e…"

"I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."

"I have been guilty of many follies, but I have never been guilty of a great crime."

"We did not look for character in it, for that is not Cooper's forte; nor did we expect that his heroine would be aught better than the inanimate thing she is."

"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."