Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.
Isaac D'IsraeliTo think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Isaac D'IsraeliAll this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.
Isaac D'Israeli