Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature,…

— Boethius

“Man, you should write a book.’ ‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?”

— Stephanie Wood

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

— Peter Tait

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.”

— Happyhungrypets

“The book is man's best invention so far.”

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

— Herman Melville

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

— John le Carre

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson