He was damned by John Calvin; he was almost saved by John Gilpin.

Everywhere we see that men do not go mad by dreaming.
Critics are much madder than poets.

Homer is complete and calm enough; it is his critics who tear him into extravagant tatters.

Shakespeare is quite himself; it is only some of his critics who have discovered that he was somebody else.

And though St.John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.