To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect,…

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.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

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.

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

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