The reward of a thing well done is having done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."