What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Books think for me.
Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.
Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other f...
I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.
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