THE MELK LIBRARY, PHOTO BY: JENNY AUDRING
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
Alexandre Dumas
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
James Fenimore Cooper
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass