The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.