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

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

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

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

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