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

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?

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you read more

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be read more

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

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.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.