That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

--  C.C. Colton, Lacon: Preface

You have reached the page for delving into my personal writings, where I try build upon, interpret, make connections, and generally expose my take on "teachers," some of whom I link to here and here. I hope I do not put you to sleep. Again, please feel free to send along your own interpretations and thoughts. Oh, and how about a few more thoughts on writing. Cheers.

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

--  Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality

To write and to live are very different. Many who praise virture do no more than to praise it.

--  Johnson, Works (Vol. iii, p. 83, Hawkins, ed.)

If the works of the great poets teach anything, it is to hold mere invention somewhat cheap. It is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found, that is of consequence.

--  J.R. Lowell, My Study Windows: Chaucer

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

--  Samuel Johnson (Boswell, Life, 1775)

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

--  Samuel Johnson (Boswell, Life, 1776)