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 Churchill, Roving Commission: My EarlyLife, 1930, Chapter 9 British politician (1874 – 1965)