Walden by Henry David Thoreau: “His Dialogues, which contain what was immortal in him, lie on the next shelf, and yet I never read them.”
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey: “She found such sentiments helpful, underlining them in blue pencil; and, in return, she assisted her friend with a long series of elaborate comments upon the Dialogues of Plato, most of which he embodied in the second edition of his translation.”