Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A b...
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
I have wander in many minds through the pages of books.
There is no friend like a book there is no beauty like a kind heart.
The burning lamp is found in reading books.
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.
The gift of literature is the grace of knowledge.
Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret pow...
It is right that one must come so far to see the world as it is meant to be.
There is no greater crime against humanity than usury.
All the truth of God are discoverable through every day life.
Now hear of the new judgement. You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.