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.

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.

And, 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.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

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