I say that a college ought to be proud, within reason, to have its books stolen. Why do people steal money? Because they value it. Apply this to books and you may get a measure of effective education. Naturally, purloining should not be encouraged or even condoned; but it should be accepted as a running […]
Books Quotes
You’ve only to walk amongst them, to trail your fingers over their spines, to be enriched by a wonderful osmosis.
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to those that are yet unborn.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Old friends to trust! Old books to read!
If bread be what you seek O little mice, Go to some other shelf is my advice; But if upon my books you whet a tooth, Your revel you shall rue in bitter truth.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
When I want to understand someone swiftly, I need only look at their bookshelf.
With all the books we have, so many still waiting to be written! Like fresh deep plums way up in the treetops. Not much fun to climb up some teetery ladder, snake through the branches going way out on limbs to pick ’em, but how delicious they are when the work is over.
