If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Books Quotes
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
I wrote a book when impotent to fight a battle.
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
If it is even slightly difficult, I don’t read it. (when asked “What is the most difficult book you have read?”)
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they might be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, “The medicines of the soul.”
To have a book stimulate you as much as possible, it is also advisable that you lend it voice – your own or sometimes another person’s. The ancients are said to have read aloud even when they were alone. Rapid, cursive reading with the eyes and without sounding the words is a modern invention; this […]
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places […]
