Books are a finer world within the world.

Books are a finer world within the world.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from read more

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

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

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great read more

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.