Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.