Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. - Charles Caleb Colton

Cicero observed to a degenerate patrician, "I am the first of my family, but you are the last of yours" And since his time, those who value themselves merely on their ancestry, have been compared to potatoes, all that is good of them is under the ground.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.