We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored.
Books Quotes
A wicked book cannot repent.
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
Don’t explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
The day of the Bible is passed. Books have taken its place.
We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.
I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.
When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. (2 Timothy 4:13)
Once you put it down, you simply can’t pick it up. (Of a much praised book by Henry James)
