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.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.