A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he ...fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or ...the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »