The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. – Hans Urs von Balthasar