The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Books Quotes
The book you don’t read can’t help.
Books allowed my imagination to take flight – and it hasn’t landed yet.
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration leaping from forest to forest.
There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You’ve unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book.
‘Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard.
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
Anybody who doesn’t like this book is healthy.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
