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.
Books Quotes
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Books cannot always please, however good minds are not ever craving for their food.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island… and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
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.
