“ The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. ”
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
~ Isaac D'israeli
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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.
