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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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!
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a read more
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he read more
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
