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- Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
- It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
- Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
- Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
- Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896
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