O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
