Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.