So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge. - George Saintsbury

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.