After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style |
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style |
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. |
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. |
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners |
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us |
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses |
The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those who had courage to taste it; resisted as it encroached; abused as its popularity seemed to spread; and establishing its |
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. |