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 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.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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.
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