It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
Beware of the man of one book.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
