This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Books Quotes
When a new book is published, read an old one.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
The book you don’t read can’t help.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
There are excellent bits here, you’ll find, And bits of a so and so kind. Still more than the latter are bad bits – no matter! A book is of all sorts combined.
I would lay aside the wisest book to talk to a stupid woman.
There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You’ve unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book.
‘Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard.
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
