It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

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

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.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

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.

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