"Tis the good reader that makes the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“Character is that which can do without success.”

“A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.”

“One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.”

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.”

“the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.”

“It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted.”

“a good reader makes a good book”

“The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.”