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

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

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

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

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.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

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