Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe, Flutter and bear him up the Norfolk sky: In that red house in a red mahogany book-case The stamp collection waits with mounts long dry.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  Continual Dew,'Death of King George V'.

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, and a'that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a'that! For a'that, and a'that, Our toils obscure, and a'that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a'that.

-Burns, Robert
  'For a' that and a' that', stanza1.

We must however acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities†still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, ch.21.

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere† But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampöthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

-Gerhardie,William Alexander
  Polyglots, ch.7.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

-Jonson, Ben
Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,öif you did not come inonthewife'sside,öif youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,ölook about you† Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.

-Lamb, Charles
  Essays of Elia,'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

-Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson
Quoted inJ B Birks Rutherford at Manchester (1962).