A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Books Quotes
If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, – and that is a book honestly come by.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
The lowbrow is a person who often believes that a bad book is good; the highbrow is a person who as often believes that a good book is bad.
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.
If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A […]
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.
If the whole be greater than a part of him man must be greater than that part of him which is found in a book.
