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

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

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.

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.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.