It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.