After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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

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

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.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.