"Books take their place according to their..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”

“Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.”

“Poverty consist in feeling poor.”

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”

“A room without books is like a life without meaning.”

“The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.”

“Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”

“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.”

“No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.”