That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed
with profit.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed
with profit.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he read more

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

We call some books immortal! Do they live?
If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure.
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We call some books immortal! Do they live?
If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure.
In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

A library is thought in cold storage.

A library is thought in cold storage.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great read more

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.