We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the lo...
Read enough books to build your sacred soul.
A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
While the stories are fiction, the journey is real.
Perhaps we would all like to love more richly than we do. Many novels are about love- most are, perhaps-and it gives us pleasure to identify with loving characters. They are free, and we are not. But...
DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me...
We encounter many sacred souls while reading.
Reading doesn't put you to sleep... it makes you dream...
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it - say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the phot...
And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away...
Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert...
Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.
Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it.
You have not escaped his notice either- you are here by 'a call' not by choice.