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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
- It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. — Henry Ward Beecher