~Quacks.~--Pettifoggers in law and empirics in medicine have held from
time immemorial the fee simple of a vast estate, subject to no
alienation, diminution, revolution, nor tax--the folly and ignorance of
mankind.--_Colton._
Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine.
Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case
it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the
credulity of men.--_Thoreau._
~Qualities.~--Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man
becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.--_Goethe._
~Quarrels.~--Coarse kindness is, at least, better than coarse anger; and
in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its
dullness.--_George Eliot._
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more
beautiful when they have passed.--_Mme. Necker._
~Questions.~--There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive
mind can, in this state, receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why
was this world created? And, since it was to be created, why was it not
created sooner?--_Johnson._
~Quotation.~--In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read;
others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name
them.--_Selden._
If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together
do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they
will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to
employ and hallow a fancy.--_Jeremy Taylor._
If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the works of our
National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in
the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.--_Burke._
It is the beauty and independent worth of the citations, far more than
their appropriateness, which have made Johnson's Dictionary popular even
as a reading-book.--_Coleridge._
Ruin half an author's graces by plucking bon-mots from their
places.--_Hannah More._