"Books are the treasured wealth of the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.”

“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”

“The world rests on principles.”

“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”

“If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.”

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

“Violence begins where knowledge ends.”

“It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.”

“We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.”