Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

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

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

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

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

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.