Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

All 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.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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