"Classics which at home are drowsily read..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.”

“Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.”

“Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.”

“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”

“I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.”

“It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.”

“Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!”

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.”

“If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.”