Quotes preceded by immediate source and followed by the original source:

Shelbi's blog:
"To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin." -Spencer W. Kimball

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
--Keats (ode to a nightingale)
I just liked it. :)

Institute (Brother Hunsaker):

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And to most of us who must perforce live prose, there is a charm beyond all definition in the development of a poetic nature.
--Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (The Story of Avis)