The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would read more

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars read more

In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the Future as the Past is given--
Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.

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

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

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason read more

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!