“Lane was speaking now as someone does who has been monopolizing conversation for a good quarter of an hour or so and who believes he has just hit a stride where his voice can do absolutely no wrong.”
Franny and Zooey (1961), Franny (1955)
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“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 23.

Source: "Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), p. 70
Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory," http://www.filmmonthly.com/Profiles/Articles/PNewman/PNewman.html interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)

“Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!”
Monsieur Wagner a de beaux moments, mais de mauvais quart d'heures.
Letter to Emile Naumann, April 1867, quoted in E Naumann Italienische Tondichter (1883) vol. 4, p. 5. Translation from The Riverside Dictionary of Biography (2005) p. 689.

Address to the court in "The Communist Trial", People v. Lloyd (1920)

“Blessed, unquestionably, is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.”
Fifth Day, Novel XLII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)