Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.].

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend….

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted..

One may quote till one compiles..

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination..

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear..

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius..

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest..

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted..

Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as….

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius..

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as throu….

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning t….

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often….

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised..

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical..

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created..

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities..

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

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract..

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats..