Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson