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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
- It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. — Dinah Maria Mulock
- How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors. — Dinah Maria Mulock
- When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why. — Dinah Maria Mulock