Duke Huan of Ch’i was reading a book at the upper end of the hall; the wheelwright was making a wheel at the lower end. Putting aside his mallet and chisel, he called to the Duke and asked him what book he was reading. ‘One that records the words of the Sages,’ answered the Duke. […]
Books Quotes
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder.
He was inspired, and yet he wants books! He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had […]
It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too… There was some books too, piled up perfectly exact, on each corner of the table. One was a big family Bible, full of pictures. One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family it didn’t say why. I read considerable in […]
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
The pleasure of literature is having it all inside you. It is the one thing that one can have inside oneself.
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer.
