The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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.

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

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

A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]

A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.