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.

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

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

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

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

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.