Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Books Quotes
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.
Reading books in one’s youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one’s courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace. This is because the depth of benefits of reading varies in […]
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconsciously as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug.
Books are the curse of the human race.
The easiest books are generally the best; for whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Many thanks; I shall lose no time in reading your book.
