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.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

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

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]