Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Books Quotes
I never read a book before reviewing it – it prejudices a man so.
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally.
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.
Open a book and before long you’re lost on seas never crossed in a dream ship storm-tossed that will bring you ashore where no one’s yet been. There through forests of green unknown wild words you will follow bluebirds that lead you to where in high magic air you will find a gold door. Turn […]
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder.
