Books Quotes
These are some of the best 'Books' quotations and sayings.
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
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A blessed companion is a book,-a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.-The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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As well almost kill a man, as kill a good book; for the life of the one is but a few short years, while that of the other may be for ages. - Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills as it were, the image of God.
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Bad books are like intoxicating drinks; they furnish neither nourishment, nor medicine. - Both improperly excite; the one the mind; the other the body. - The desire for each increases by being fed. - Both ruin; one the intellect; the other the health; and together, the soul. - The safeguard against each is the same - total abstinence from all that intoxicates either mind or body.
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Books (says Bacon) can never teach the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to suppose he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.
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Books are a finer world within the world.
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
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Books are embalmed minds.
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progen they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. - They are good for nothing but to inspire. - I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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