Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. - Samuel Johnson

In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.

Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed; there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the comprehension of any great work in its full design and its true proportions; a close approach shews the smaller niceties, but the beauty of the whole is discerned no longer.

Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.