The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.