If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him w... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."

"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."

"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none."