Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the oth… - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But alas! the exceptions prove the rule. For who will dare to force his way out of the crowd,—not of the mere vulgar,—but of the vain and banded aristocracy of intellect, and presume to join the almost supernatural beings that stand by themselves aloof?

Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.

The happiness of life ... is made up of minute fractions — the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.