There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have…

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

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

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

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.