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.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

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

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

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