The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.