The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
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.
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.