At times his genius seems to possess creative power, and to open to our gaze things new and glorious, of which we have never dreamed; then again it seems like sunlight, its province not to create, but to vivify and glorify what before was within and around us.

Aspirations, fancies, beliefs we have long folded in our hearts as dear and sacred things, yet never had the power or the courage to reveal, bloom out as naturally in his pages as wild flowers when the blossoming time is come.

We are not so much struck by the grandeur of his conceptions, or fascinated by the elegance of his diction, as warmed, ennobled, and delighted by the glow of his enthusiasm, the purity of his principles, and the continuous gushing forth of his tenderness.

His words form an electric chain, along which he sends his own soul, thrilling around the wide circle of his readers."-- N.P.

Willis's _Home Journal_.
"Perhaps no writer has attracted a greater degree of public attention, or received a larger share of public praise, during the last few years, than Martin F.Tupper,--a man of whom England may well be proud, and whose name will eventually be one of the very noblest on the scroll of fame."-- _American Courier_.
"Everybody knows the 'Proverbial Philosophy' of Martin Tupper; a million and a half of copies--so, publishers say--have been sold in America."-- _New York World_.
"Full of genius, rich in thought, admirable in its religious tone and beautiful language."-- _Cincinnati Atlas_.
"'Apples of gold set in pictures of silver' is the most apposite apophthegm we can apply to the entire work.