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 […]
Books Quotes
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?
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.
