Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!

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.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading read more

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them