Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over read more

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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

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

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

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in read more

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

A library is thought in cold storage.

A library is thought in cold storage.