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

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.