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

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

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

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

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.