One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Source: The Colby Essays, vol. 1, Quotation and Allusion. 1926.
-- Frank Moore Colby, (Feb 10 1865-1925), US encyclopedia editor, essayist; His collection of essays, The Colby Essays, 1921, includes On Seeing Ten Bad Plays and Trials of an Encyclopedist.