Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.
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.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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 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.