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.

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

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.

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.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.