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

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.

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

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

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.