Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
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.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
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.