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Books are humanity in print.
Books are humanity in print.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one read more
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read read more
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
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.
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in read more
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence
Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end read more
Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations