The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books Quotes
Thank God for books! And yet thank God that the great realm of truth lies yet outside of books, too vast to be mastered by types or imprisoned in libraries.
It was a great relief to be in a country where salacious sex literature cannot be sold; where putrid motion pictures and gangster films cannot be shown. The new Germany has burned great masses of corrupting books and magazines along with its bonfires of Jewish and communistic libraries. (1934)
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.
If bread be what you seek O little mice, Go to some other shelf is my advice; But if upon my books you whet a tooth, Your revel you shall rue in bitter truth.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
When I want to understand someone swiftly, I need only look at their bookshelf.
With all the books we have, so many still waiting to be written! Like fresh deep plums way up in the treetops. Not much fun to climb up some teetery ladder, snake through the branches going way out on limbs to pick ’em, but how delicious they are when the work is over.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
