Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

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

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

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

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!