Famous quotes containing the words reading and/or glasses:
“Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)