You really lose a lot by never reading books again.
Books Quotes
It is, perhaps, not considered through how many hands a book often passes, before it comes into those of the reader; or what part of the profit each hand must retain, as a motive for transmitting it to the next.
The shortest book ever written is “The Sensitive Remarks Made by White Males in Power.”
There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.
I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention: because you have done a great deal, when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He’ll get better books […]
Where do I find all the time for not reading so many books?
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or “Tristam Shandy” or Shakespeare’s Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he ‘has read’ them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that […]
By degrees one age improves upon another. Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without […]
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?
