Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man’s obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
Books Quotes
The Author to her Book: Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did’st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad expos’d to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th’ press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge). […]
Don Juan looked at me for a moment and did not seem at all surprised to see me, even though it had been more than two years since I last visited him. He put his hand on my shoulder and smiled gently and said that I looked different, that I was getting fat and soft. […]
Child, do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
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.
