I have no pleasure from books which equals that of reading over the hundredth time great productions which I almost know by heart.
Books Quotes
In my title I revive the word ‘chrestomathy’ in its true sense of ‘a collection of choice passages from an author or authors.’… When this book was announced, some newspaper smarties protested that the word would be unfamiliar to many readers, as it was to them. Thousands of excellent nouns, verbs and adjectives that have […]
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as lovingly alive as the one which gave it birth, a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Our lives are books, written in our own blood on the tattered pages of time.
Which is the real possessor of a book – the man who has its original and every following edition, and shows, to many an admiring and envying visitor, now this, now that, in binding characteristic, with possessor-pride; yeah, from secret shrine is able to draw forth and display the author’s manuscript, with the very shapes […]
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, is as good almost to kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, […]
