Family/criticism

Famous quotes containing the words family and/or criticism:

“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.”
—J.M. (John Millington)

“Good criticism is very rare and always precious.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)