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

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

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

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.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.