Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

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

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

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

A poet is a painter of the soul.