Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.