He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.