David Teems

“She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

“I am deeply convinced that no man, however wide his erudition, however patient his antiquarian researches, can possibly understand, or be worthy of understanding, the writings of Shakespeare.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, SHAKESPEARE, THE DRAMA & THE STAGE: Enriched edition. Coleridge's Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Old Poets and Dramatists

“True criticism is the reflection of the thing criticized upon the spirit of the critic”
― Arthur Hobson Quinn, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography