Quotes from William Francis Henry King

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler...

In these pages the novelist should be able to find a striking verse to head his chapter, the raconteur add to his bon mots, the man of the world enrich his stock of maxims, the divine obtain some deep thought drawn from the wells of ancient learning.

Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.