Laura

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
― Epicurus

“For I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning as is praise.”
― Roger Ascham, The United States Service Magazine