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- You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
- Swami Brahnmananda
- Analysis kills spontaneity.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
- Johnson
- The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
- James Goldsmith
- The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
- Christopher Dawson
- Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
- Rufus Choate
- It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
- Henry Peter Brougham
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