No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.
Books Quotes
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
If it is even slightly difficult, I don’t read it. (when asked “What is the most difficult book you have read?”)
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they might be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, “The medicines of the soul.”
To have a book stimulate you as much as possible, it is also advisable that you lend it voice – your own or sometimes another person’s. The ancients are said to have read aloud even when they were alone. Rapid, cursive reading with the eyes and without sounding the words is a modern invention; this […]
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places […]
Steal not this book, my honest friend, For fear the gallows should be your end, And when you die the Lord will say, And where’s the book you stole away?
Books are like foreign countries or parts of your own land that you have never visited. You do not have to travel over them mile by mile to get a reasonably adequate idea of what they are like. The account of one honest traveler saves you that, especially if he knows you and has seen […]
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
