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

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

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

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

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!