Books Quotes

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Through and through the inspired leaves, Ye maggots make your windings; But, oh, respect his lordship’s taste, And spare the golden bindings!