Quotes on Books
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors are finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Colton
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles Eliot
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry Ford
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