Regarding the Boy Scouts, I’m very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook.
Books Quotes
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Books are embalmed minds.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Thank God for books! And yet thank God that the great realm of truth lies yet outside of books, too vast to be mastered by types or imprisoned in libraries.
It was a great relief to be in a country where salacious sex literature cannot be sold; where putrid motion pictures and gangster films cannot be shown. The new Germany has burned great masses of corrupting books and magazines along with its bonfires of Jewish and communistic libraries. (1934)
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.
To spend several days in a friend’s house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind.
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.
“What is the use of a book”, thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
