Acceptance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library. As a college student I was educated in…

— James Michener

“Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use…

— Edith Wharton

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations…

— Samuel Johnson

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“In towering letters Cicero’s words were engraved over the library entrance. Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.”

— Linda Lafferty

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some men have only one book in them, others a library

— Anonymous

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right time in…

— Charles Cumming