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.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.