A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure-critics are ready-made.

'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

With just enough of learning to misquote.

I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde f…

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

'I have had no professional training.'