Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

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