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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Laws die, Books never.
Laws die, Books never.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from read more
The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their graves they rise.
Angels--that, side by side, upon our way,
Walk with and warn us!
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great read more
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
