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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read read more
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the read more
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in read more
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way
A library is thought in cold storage.
A library is thought in cold storage.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable read more
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual
renovation.
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books there is no end: and much study read more
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the
flesh.