Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
One may quote till one compiles.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.