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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn read more
Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be read more
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and read more
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over read more
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read read more
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.