Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Books Quotes
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Computers will never take the place of books. You can’t stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned – the biggest word of all – look.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Unto my books so good to turn Far ends of tired days; It half endears the abstinence, And pain is missed in praise.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.
The way a book is read – which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book – can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone, who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
