"Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.""

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain