When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. – Anatole France, “The Creed”

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

Only roam on, therefore, all fearless, in the many garden of romantic chivalrous poesy, which drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. – C.O. Müller (Karl Otfried Müller), Introduction to a Scientific System