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.
There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.