Be 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 EmersonThe worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Ralph Waldo EmersonVery idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
Ralph Waldo Emerson