Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

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

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

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.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

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