The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

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

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

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.