The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

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

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

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.