"Never read any book that is not..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.”

“The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.”

“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”

“I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.”

“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”

“Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

“Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.”

“People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.”