What work nobler than transplanting foreign thought into the barren domestic
soil? except indeed planting thought of your own, which the fewest are
privileged to do.—_Sarlor Resartus_.
At each flaw, be this your first thought: the author doubtless said something
quite different, and much more to the point. And then you may hiss _me_
off, if you will.—LUCIAN, _Nigrinus, 9_.
(LUCIAN) The last great master of Attic eloquence and Attic wit.—_Lord
Macaulay_.