Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

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

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

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.