The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!
Books are sepulchres of thought.
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.
My Book and Heart Shall never part.
A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.