Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
Books Quotes
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
People are expected to read (Vanity Fair) during their university years. But you are mistaken if you think you read Thackeray’s book then; you read a lesser book of your own. It should be read again when you are thirty-six, which is the age of Thackeray when he wrote it. It should be read for […]
Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles beyond Hell, where the Devil could not get for stinging nettles.
A book is the only immortality.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will… Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Mrs. Dryden: “Lord, Mr. Dryden, how can you always be poring over these musty books. I wish I were a book, and then I should have more of your company.” Dryden: “Pray, my dear; if you become a book let it be an almanack,for then I shall change you every year.”
