Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Man is what he reads.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
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.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.