Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Books are like my one and only joy.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

May books and nature be their early joy!

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

Books wind into the heart.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

There is no frigate like a book

Books are a languid pleasure.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.