What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. ” “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would mar…” “Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views…” “Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thoug…”