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

Plutarch

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

Mark Twain

“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

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rudyard Kipling

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Frederick Douglass

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

James Fenimore Cooper