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.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 9 “Education at Bangalore” (1930)