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.
Books Quotes
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.
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
I have no pleasure from books which equals that of reading over the hundredth time great productions which I almost know by heart.
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 […]
