Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Civil Rights Bill signing speech (1964)
“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”
"The Sick Chamber," The New Monthly Magazine (August 1830), reprinted in Essays of William Hazlitt, selected and edited by Frank Carr (London, 1889)
Source: Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr
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Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
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William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman
"Self-Culture", an address in Boston (September 1838) http://www.americanunitarian.org/selfculture.htm <br class="br">Context: I have insisted on our own activity as essential to our progress; but we were not made to live or advance alone. Society is as needful to us as air or food. A child doomed to utter loneliness, growing up without sight or sound of human beings, would not put forth equal power with many brutes; and a man, never brought into contact with minds superior to his own, will probably run one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of llfe.<br>It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
“When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.”
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Variant: Live the beauty or your own reality.
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'intention de ne jamais tromper nous expose à être souvent trompés.
Maxim 118.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Remarks at "Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland (18 February 1958) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 899, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library <br class="br">Pre-1960