It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it
intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good
thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for
more.
-- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill 1874-1965,
-- Roving Commission: My Early Life [1930]