When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman.
Books Quotes
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.
One ought to have a supply of good books on newsprint to be read in the bath or thrown away on a journey.
I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
Books are just trees with squiggles on them.
A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book does not shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place?
