Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles beyond Hell, where the Devil could not get for stinging nettles.
Books Quotes
A book is the only immortality.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will… Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Mrs. Dryden: “Lord, Mr. Dryden, how can you always be poring over these musty books. I wish I were a book, and then I should have more of your company.” Dryden: “Pray, my dear; if you become a book let it be an almanack,for then I shall change you every year.”
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Never judge a book by its movie.
