The man whose book is filled with quotations, may be said to creep along the shore of authors, as if he were afraid to trust himself to the free compass of reasoning. – Quoted unattributed in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, April 1

He repeated to himself an old French proverb that he had made up that morning. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. – Nicolas Charles Joseph Trublet