We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.
Books Quotes
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.
I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.
When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. (2 Timothy 4:13)
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
I never read a book before reviewing it – it prejudices a man so.
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally.
