I do not think there is, upon the face of the whole earth, so nauseous a thing as an over dose of wisdom; mixed up, according to the modern practice, with a quantum sufficit of virture, and a large double handful of the good of the whole.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
I am not sure that I have made myself intelligible in this, and still less whether it is worth your reading, but I fancied that you wished an opinion, and I give it, valeat quantum....
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
With the proviso of valeat quantum, it is not quite unfair to dwell, as has often been dwelt, on the fact that the grand triumph of Mrs. Radcliffe's terrormongering-the famous incident of the Black Veil-is produced by a piece of wax-work.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury