Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.

There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.