4,247 quotes found
“You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.”
“Laws die books never.”
“Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.”
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
“Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.”
“A dictionary should be descriptive not prescriptive.”
“It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.”
“First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.”
“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.”
“I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.”
“In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.”
“If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.”
“A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.”
“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 ...”
“I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.”
“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.”
“Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.”
“If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.”
“Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.”
