What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."

"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."