Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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.

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

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.