One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably th...
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the ro...
If books are not good company, where shall I find it?
Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or whe...
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a...
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while ot...
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Passion for books is pleasurable.
A delight to read is a great treasure.