John Bartlett 
Familiar Quotations [PDF ebook] 
Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source, Passages and Phrases in Common Use

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The object of this work is to show, to some ex tent, the obligations our language is under to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quota tions which have become household words.