Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

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

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

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

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