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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
- The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. — Alfred Lord Tennyson