Stealing from the tongues of erudites.

Quotations are beautiful things, as they solve an incessant problem with provocative writing: no matter how insightful and lucid you can make an idea, it falls under the weight of its own brilliance if you don’t support it. But with a quote you sidestep the examples and logical reasoning altogether with a name – a name that people will trust with such suppositions more than they will trust you.