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

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

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 golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

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

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.