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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
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. — James Payn
- Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards. — James Payn
- But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. — James Payn