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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
- Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. — Philip Stanhope
- Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. — Philip Stanhope
- Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. — Philip Stanhope