Famous quotes containing the words harris, learning and/or library:
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”
—Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)
“Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn’t.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)