To spend several days in a friend’s house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind.
Books Quotes
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.
“What is the use of a book”, thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man’s obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
The Author to her Book: Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did’st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad expos’d to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th’ press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge). […]
Don Juan looked at me for a moment and did not seem at all surprised to see me, even though it had been more than two years since I last visited him. He put his hand on my shoulder and smiled gently and said that I looked different, that I was getting fat and soft. […]
Child, do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
