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- 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
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw