For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.