I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Books Quotes
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, […]
“Well, but look here,” he said, just to keep up his part in the foolish conversation, “what if one of the chimpanzees finally did duplicate a book, right down to the last period, but left that off? Would that count?” – “I suppose not. Probably the chimpanzee would get around to doing the book again, […]
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes […]
