An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

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

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

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

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 act of contemplation then creates the thing created.