A poet is a painter of the soul.
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
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.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.