The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10 copies. The message I’m giving out, that what we think about becomes true for us, and negative thoughts mean good things don’t happen, isn’t always easy for some people to take.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.
Tulsidas’s Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
What better book can there be than the book of humanity.