Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

A book which hath been culled from the flowers of all books.

By necessity, by proclivity,- and by delight, we all quote.

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

But I find that two seemingly conflicting thoughts which have made it to proverb or aphorism status can be, and usually are, in the ambivalence of life, both true.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.