One may quote till one compiles.

One may quote till one compiles.

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.

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

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.

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