a good reader makes a good book Auteur: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.” “The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.” “Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a ha…” “With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”