Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

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

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.

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

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

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.