Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. – W.I.E. Gates, quoted in Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Times by Laurenc

A beautiful verse, an apt remark, or a well-turned phrase, appropriately quoted, is always effective and charming. – Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond du Deffand

Short sentences drawn from long experience. – Miguel de Cervantes

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere. – Edward Lytton Bulwer