Dave

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Tae be yersel an tae mak that worth bein
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien”
― Hugh McDiarmid

“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.”
― John Ruskin, Unto This Last

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust