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.
Books Quotes
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.
The book which is read most, is read by few, compared with those that read it not; and of those few, the greater part peruse it with dispositions that very little favour their own improvement.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
That book is good in vain which the reader throws away.
“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.” “But what if I don’t like it?” Ted shrugged. “Then don’t finish it. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump […]
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
People seldom read a book, which is given to them. The way to spread a word is to sell it at a low price.
