There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle

What is once well done is done forever.
Henry David Thoreau

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Henry David Thoreau

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Bob Dylan