A book is a gift you can open again and again.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

The book you don't read can't help

The book you don't read can't help

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as read more

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in read more

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.