Famous Books Quotes
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Nature's landscapes are like pages of a living book, inviting us to read and explore its stories.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Nature's winter tableau is a mesmerizing blend of contrasts — the starkness of bare branches against the purity of snow-covered fields, and the softness of animal tracks imprinted on the frozen canvas. Winter, in all its frosty splendor, is a chapter in the book of nature, reminding us of the cyclical rhythm and quiet beauty inherent in the changing seasons.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Philosophy is written in this grand book — I mean the universe — which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
