"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"

"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

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

"Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything."

"An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly."

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

"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."

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

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."