Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from read more

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

The book you don't read can't help

The book you don't read can't help

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books there is no end: and much study read more

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the
flesh.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to read more

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought
forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which
no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all