The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
Walter ScottCertainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
Walter ScottHonour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
Walter Scott