What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
Ralph Waldo EmersonBe a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson