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.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.
But your own books belong to you; you treat them with the affectionate intimacy that annihilates formality. Books are for use, not for show; you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up, or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down. A good reason for marking favorite passages […]
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
