Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.