The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

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

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

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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.