Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon Category: Reading
When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin Category: Reading
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott Category: Reading
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. – Frank Moore Colby Category: Play/Games
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. – Ronald Reagan Category: Politics
The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. – Samuel H. Hammond Category: Self-Discovery