HAVE QUOTE WILL TRAVEL

(This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 and without a copyright notice.)
Have Gun -- Will Travel was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version.  
Did you know that?
I remember watching the re-runs on TV in the late nights when just a boy. 

Each episode opened with the same visual:
Paladin drawing his gun  
while delivering a line of dialogue from the coming episode, 
after which the pistol is uncocked and holstered briskly. 

Some have seen a bit of Paladin in my Samuel McCord, 
though both are quite different, they both wear black and are educated.
 Those of you who have read my books know that I like to start each chapter 
with a tantalizing title and a quote to tease what is to come.
Take two chapters from my latest WIP: THE NOT-SO-INNOCENTS AT LARGE

CHAPTER TEN
TREACHERY IS LIKE DIAMONDS


“Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.”
– Qing Long, the Azure Dragon



CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
A GRAVE OF DEAD GODS


“Where is the graveyard of dead gods? What of Huitzilopochtli?  In one year - and it is no more than five hundred years ago - 50,000 youths and maidens were slain in sacrifice to him.  Today, he is not revered at all.  Such a waste of life, but that is the way of humans to waste the precious to serve the useless.”
 - Lady Meilori Shinseen

What do you think?  
Do beginning chapter quotes add to the book?  You know what I think by my use of them.
Starting a chapter with a quote is known as an Epigraph. 
 See?  Don't you feel more informed now?