Famous quotes containing the words cheever and/or wrote:
“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)