Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious t...
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possi...
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calami...
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly m...
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes; and though...
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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
