A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. – John Mason Brown

It should be a pleasure to the appreciative reader, while recognizing their beauty, to cull these flowers of thought for the benefit of those who, less fortunate than himself, have not the time to indulge in literary pleasures. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech

Cunning authors cut to be quoted. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010