More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
“Hacket’s Life of Lord Keeper Williams”, notes published in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 3 (1838), ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge, p. 186To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,
Makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart!“On taking Leave of ————“, l. 1 (1817)- “A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)
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.
