There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man’s thoughts.
If we could follow the slogan that says,“Turn off the TV and open a good book” we would do something of substance for a future generation.
Anybody who doesn’t like this book is healthy.
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.
I don’t have change I’d have to give you nine more books.
I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.
Good books are the warehouses of ideas.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.
Life doesn’t come with an instruction book; that’s why we have fathers.
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.
One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.