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.

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

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.

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

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

One may quote till one compiles.