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.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

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

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!