A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

One may quote till one compiles.

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

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

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

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.