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

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

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.