People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be read more

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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

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

An art book is a museum without walls.

An art book is a museum without walls.

Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!

Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!