To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

One may quote till one compiles.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!

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