9 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Books

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on books

14. Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

17. Never read any book that is not a year old.

43. I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.

125. I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

148. Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

248. 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.

272. In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

277. The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

286. A man is made by the books he reads.