Of making many books there is no end – So Sancho Panza said, and so say I. Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend When only one is shining in the sky. Books cannot always please, however good; The good is oft interred with their bones. To be great is to be misunderstood, The anointed […]
Books Quotes
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws.
I say that a college ought to be proud, within reason, to have its books stolen. Why do people steal money? Because they value it. Apply this to books and you may get a measure of effective education. Naturally, purloining should not be encouraged or even condoned; but it should be accepted as a running […]
You’ve only to walk amongst them, to trail your fingers over their spines, to be enriched by a wonderful osmosis.
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to those that are yet unborn.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Old friends to trust! Old books to read!
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.
