“Quotation confesses inferiority.”

“People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority”

“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

“Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.”

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”