"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
"In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own."
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Source: Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Autorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with Marginalia, Suggestions, and Essays”, p.540
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