Some Books Leave us Free and Some Books Make us Free

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson