There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they …

- Egerton Brydges

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

- Egerton Brydges

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

- Egerton Brydges

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

- Egerton Brydges

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

- Egerton Brydges