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

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!

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

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.