Santiago swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
Books Quotes
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands… So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody’s reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor […]
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The good of a book lies in it being read.
Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. “I’ll have to admit that he’s a very competent scholar.” – “Isn’t he just a librarian?” Garion asked, “somebody who looks after books?” – “That’s where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won’t help you if they’re just piled […]
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
