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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised. - Isaac D'Israeli,

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

And, 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.

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.