A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Books Quotes
Never read any book that is not a year old.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
A book that is shut is but a block.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
All good and true book-lovers practise the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed. Indeed – no book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Never read a book about a book; read the book.
I am prepared to say only one twentieth of one percent of the American people reads books carefully. But that is one hundred thousand people. And that is all I ever ask for. Some people think that they must write for two hundred million Americans. This is a terrible mistake.
