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.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

One may quote till one compiles.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

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

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

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

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

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

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

You least obtain something great from the great thing you regard as least though such great thing can give you something great

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

There is no one in the world that lives without sin.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something.

You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of political forces play a roll.