Of all the books that I acquired, the one which I have valued most was Bartlett’s Quotations. Years afterwards I found that Churchill at Bangalore had done exactly the same thing: ‘It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.’
