“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. ”

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)”

“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.”

“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.”

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”

“The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.”