"After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron."

"The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory ha…"

"Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and…"

"Candour is the brightest gem of criticism."

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

"If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a…"

"To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion."

"The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical."

"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."

"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."