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.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

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

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

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

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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