More from Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Often credited to Benjamin Franklin- The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Fame
The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Tombs
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
