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

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

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!

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.