With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companio… - Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest.