Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. - Erasmus

For what is there at all done among men that is not full of folly, and that too from fools and to fools? Against

Jokes can be handled in such a way that any reader who is not altogether lacking in discernment can scent something far more rewarding in them than in the crabbed and specious arguments of some people we know.

A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.