Books Quotes

Isn’t everyone who bends over a book constantly discovering himself?

Books without the knowledge of life are useless; for what should books teach but the art of living?

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

One ought to have a supply of good books on newsprint to be read in the bath or thrown away on a journey.

I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.

Books are just trees with squiggles on them.

A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.