'Proverbial Philosophy' is poetry assuredly; poetry exquisite, almost beyond the bounds of fancy to conceive, brimmed with noble thoughts, and studded with heavenward aspirations."-- _Church of England Journal_.
"The 'Proverbial Philosophy,' which first established Mr.Tupper's reputation, is a work of standard excellence.

It has met with unprecedented success, and many large editions of it have been sold.

It led to the author's being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; and the King of Prussia, in token of his Majesty's high approbation of the work, sent him the gold medal for science and literature."-- _Glasgow Examiner_.
"This book is like a collection of miniature paintings on ivory, small, beautiful, highly finished, and heterogeneous: in style something between prose and verse; not so rigid as to fetter the thought, not so free as to exclude absolute distinctness, with the turn and phrase of poetry."-- _Christian Remembrancer_.
"There is more novelty in the sentiments, a greater sweep of subjects, and a finer sense of moral beauty displayed by Mr.Tupper, than we remember to have seen in any work of its class, excepting of course the 'Proverbs of Solomon.' We also discover in his 'Philosophy' the stores of extensive reading, and the indisputable proofs of habitual and devout reflection, as well as the workings of an elegant mind."-- _Monthly Review_.
"Have we not now done enough to show that a poet of power and of promise,--a poet and philosopher both--is amongst us to delight and instruct, to elevate and to guide."-- _Conservative Journal_.
"This work glows and glitters all over with the effluence and lustre of a fine imagination, and is steeped in the rich hues and pervading beauty of a mild wisdom, and a genial and kindly morality."-- _Scots Times_.
"The 'Proverbial Philosophy' contains much sound reflection, moral and religious maxims of the highest importance, elegant figures and allusions, sound and serious observations of life,--all expressed in most appropriate and well-selected language."-- _Gentleman's Magazine_.
"One of the most original and curious productions of our time."-- _Atlas_.
"A book as full of sweetness as a honeycomb, of gentleness as woman's heart; in its wisdom worthy the disciple of a Solomon, in its genius the child of a Milton.

Every page, nay almost every line, teems with evidences of profound thinking and various reading, and the pictures it often presents to our mind are the most imaginative and beautiful that can possibly be conceived."-- _Court Journal_.
"If men delight to read Tupper both in England and America, why should they not study him both in the nineteenth century and in the twentieth?
The judgment of persons who are more or less free from insular prejudices is said in some degree to anticipate that which is admitted to be the conclusive verdict of posterity."-- _Saturday Review_.
"The popularity of the 'Proverbial Philosophy' of Martin Tupper is a gratifying and healthy symptom of the present taste in literature, the book being full of lessons of wisdom and piety, conveyed in a style startling at first by its novelty, but irresistibly pleasing by its earnestness and eloquence."-- _Literary Gazette_.
"Mr.Mill, Mr.Herbert Spencer, Mr.Browning, Mr.Morris, Mr.
Rossetti--all these writers have a wider audience in America than in England.

So too has Mr.Tupper.The imagination staggers in attempting to realise the number of copies of his works which have been published abroad.