It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone?... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.