A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken ful….

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron..

Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and mus….

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire..

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmo….

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic,….

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….

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….

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

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

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

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..

One may quote till one compiles..

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

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities..

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

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..

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

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

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

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