Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. – Seneca

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. – Anatole France, “The Creed”

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. – Edwin P. Whipple, lecture delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Associa