A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with re… — Ernest Dimnet

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. — Benjamin Franklin
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. — Ernest Dimnet