Books Quotes
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. - Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. - But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. - So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. - If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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