Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder.
Books Quotes
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.
The big advantage of a book is it’s very easy to rewind. Close it and you’re right back at the beginning.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
