If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire... - Emily Dickinson

"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."

"Kein Schiff trägt uns besser in ferne Länder, als ein Buch."

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."

"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"