There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. - St. Evremond

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. - Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. - Sir J. Mackintosh

A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty. - Erasmus

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes