Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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

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

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

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

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.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading read more

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to read more

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought
forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which
no mind can calculate. depend upon books.