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

This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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 delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

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

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