That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.  Amos Bronson Alcott quotes The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. Anthony J. D'Angelo quotes Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look. Robert Fulghum quotes If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson quotes And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare quotes Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes I live for books. Thomas Jefferson quotes I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Anna Quindlen quotes Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthur Schopenhauer quotes | 
