The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

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