C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Quill
The quill hath a good tongue.
Yriarte.
A quill hath proved the noblest gift to man.
Byron.
A little instrument of mighty power.
Cervantes.
At the point of the pen is the focus of the mind.
J. L. Basford.
Oh! Nature’s noblest gift—my gray-goose quill!
Byron.
Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
Shakespeare.
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
H. W. Shaw.
Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of another.
Chatfield.
The feather whence the pen was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, dropped from an angel’s wing.
Wordsworth.