The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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

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

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.