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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Quality |
| Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. Marcus Aurelius—Meditations. Ch. IX. 9. | 1 |
| A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body! Dickens—Nicholas Nickelby. Ch. XXXIV. | 2 |
| Hard as a piece of the nether millstone. Job. XLI. 24. | 3 |
| Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? Matthew. V. 13. | 4 |
| Fine by defect, and delicately weak. Pope—Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 43. | 5 |
| That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. Prior—Henry and Emma. L. 432. | 6 |
| Come, give us a taste of your quality. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 451. | 7 |
| Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. Madame de Staël—Germany. Pt. II. Ch. VIII. | 8 |
| Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass. Song of the Broad-Axe. St. 4. | 9 |
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