I don’t like to read books; they muss up my mind.
Books Quotes
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River […]
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men.
They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
What can we see or acquire, but what we are? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me.
