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

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.