Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.