Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
Interpretation
A good reader brings a book to life, uncovering personal insights that resonate uniquely with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between a reader and a book, suggesting that the worth of a book is enhanced by the quality of the reader. In this context, a discerning and reflective reader can extract profound wisdom and personal connections from the text that may go unnoticed by others, illustrating the importance of perspective in literary interpretation.
In practice
During a book club discussion, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book,' to emphasize the value of shared interpretations.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?
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