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

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

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

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.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.