Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.
A poet is a painter of the soul.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.
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.