I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. – Sholem Asch
An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all ones experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. – Sholem Asch
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. – Sholem Asch
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson