Prevention Is Better Than Cure.

Whether A Party Can Have Much Success Without A Woman Present I Must Ask Others To Decide, But One Thing Is Certain, No Party Is Any Fun Unless Seasoned With Folly.

Many Times What Cannot Be Refuted By Arguments Can Be Parried By Laughter.

Picture The Prince, Such As Most Of Them Are Today: A Man Ignorant Of The Law, Well-nigh An Enemy To His People's Advantage, While Intent On His Personal Convenience, A Dedicated Voluptuary, A Hater Of Learning, Freedom And Truth, Without A Thought For The Interests Of His Country, And Measuring Everything In Terms Of His Own Profit And Desires.

I Consider As Lovers Of Books Not Those Who Keep Their Books Hidden In Their Store-chests And Never Handle Them, But Those Who, By Nightly As Well As Daily Use Thumb Them, Batter Them, Wear Them Out, Who Fill Out All The Margins With Annotations Of Many Kinds, And Who Prefer The Marks Of A Fault They Have Erased To A Neat Copy Full Of Faults.

Besides, It Happens (how, I Cannot Tell) That An Idea Launched Like A Javelin In Proverbial Form Strikes With Sharper Point On The Hearer's Mind And Leaves Implanted Barbs For Meditation.