The Book Eclectic

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu