Any reading is better than none, but I prefer the book of the century rather than the book of the week or any cheap novel. Better still the book of four centuries—the book of proverbs.
Theodore Roosevelt
Proverbs introduce us to ourselves—to that bigger, grander man we never knew, beating beneath that dwarf of a man we always knew. That bigger man often haunts us until we express him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs, vol. iii. p. 14.
But he who is idle and lazy, were a roast pigeon to fly into his mouth, would be highly indignant is it were not also neatly cut up into pieces.
