Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
Books Quotes
No gentleman can comfortably do without three copies of a book. One he must have for his show copy, and he will probably keep it in his country house. Another he will require for his own use and reference; and unless he is inclined to part with this, which is very inconvenient, or risk the […]
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.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the shelf.
Steal This Book. (book title)
They will no more share a book than a mistress with a friend. If they suspected their favorite volumes of delighting any eyes but their own, they would immediately discard them from the list. Theirs are superannuated beauties that every one else has left off intriguing with, bedridden hags, a ‘stud of nightmares.’
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
