We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Books Quotes
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.
The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice and just as the touch on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice […]
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
