Stuart Horwitz

“The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.”
― Erasmus, Praise of Folly

“Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Quand on parle des vices d’un homme, si on vous dit : “Tout le monde le dit” ne le croyez pas ; si l’on parle de ses vertus en vous disant encore : “Tout le monde le dit”, croyez-le.”
― Chateaubriand