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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know read more
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you read more
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
The proper study of mankind is books.
The proper study of mankind is books.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands read more
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!
Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!
