The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

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 golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

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

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

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