"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

Henry David Thoreau

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

Ernest Hemingway

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

James Fenimore Cooper

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

Frederick Douglass

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

William Shakespeare

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”

Alexandre Dumas

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Rudyard Kipling