Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you read more

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as read more

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and read more

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands

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

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands read more

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.