Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

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.

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

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.