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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...more

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret exp...more

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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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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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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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A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so autho...more