John Dennis

“A man who is a critic and a writer is a miserable man.”

“They have stolen my thunder!”

“For the sublime is nothing else but a great thought, expressed with clearness, force, and passion.”

“Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.”

“Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul; when men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.”

“Reason is the test of ridicule.”