“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
“The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.”
“Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.”
“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”
“It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.”