We have rarely met a volume so grateful to the taste in all its parts, so rich in its simplicity, so unique in its arrangements, and so perfect in all that constitutes the perfection of style, as the volume before us.

It must live like immortal seed, to produce a continual harvest of profitable reflection."-- (_Philadelphian_) _Episcopal Recorder_.
"No one can glance at this work without perceiving that it is produced by the inspiration of genius.

It is full of glorious thoughts, each of which might be expanded into a treatise."-- _Albany Atlas_.
"We cannot express the intense interest and delight with which we have perused 'Proverbial Philosophy.'"-- _Oberlin's Evangelist_.
"The 'Proverbial Philosophy' has struck with almost miraculous force and effect upon the minds and hearts of a large class of American readers, and has at once rendered its author's name and character famous and familiar in our country.

It abounds in gems and apt allusions, which display without an effort the deep practical views and the aesthetical culture of the author."-- _Southern Literary Messenger_.
Let all this suffice for America: a few from this side of the Atlantic may be added:-- "Were we to say all we think of the nobleness of the thoughts, of the beauty and virtuousness of the sentiments contained in this volume, we should be constrained to write a lengthened eulogium on it."-- _Morning Post_.
"Martin Farquhar Tupper has won for himself the vacant throne waiting for him amidst the immortals, and after a long and glorious term of popularity among those who know when their hearts are touched, without being able to justify their taste to their intellect, has been adopted by the suffrage of mankind and the final decree of publishers into the same rank with Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning."-- _Spectator_.
"It is a book easily understood, and repaying the reader on every page with sentiments true to experience, and expressed often with surprising beauty."-- _Presbyterian_.
"One of the most thoughtful, brilliant, and finished productions of the age."-- _Banner of the Cross_.
"For poetic imagery, for brightness of thought, for clear and striking views of all the interests and conditions of man, this work has been pronounced by the English and American press as unequalled."-- _Literary Messenger_.
"The principal work of Martin Farquhar Tupper, 'Proverbial Philosophy,' is instinct with the spirit of genial hopeful love: and to this mainly should be attributed the vast amount of sympathetic admiration it has attracted, not only in this country, but also in the United States."-- _English Review_.
"We congratulate ourselves, for the sake of our land's language, on this noble addition to her stock of what Dr.Johnson justly esteems 'the highest order of learning.' If Mr.Tupper be not the high priest of his profession, he is at least no undignified minister of the altar.

The spirit of a noble hope animates the exercise of his high function."-- _Parthenon_.
"We know not whether Mr.Tupper, when he was pouring forth the contents of these glorious volumes, intended to write prose or poetry; but if his object was the former, his end has not been accomplished.