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.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book — what others do not say in whole books.