Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye but the child's heart that most truly discerns … - John Campbell Shairp

Not as men of science, not as critics, not as philosophers, but as little children, shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.

That image, or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.