Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.
Books Quotes
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Through and through the inspired leaves, Ye maggots make your windings; But, oh, respect his lordship’s taste, And spare the golden bindings!
Books are the true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn’d: Ev’n ministers, they hae been kend, In holy rapture, A rousing whid at times to vend, And nail’t wi’ Scripture.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
