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Immortal sons deifying their sires.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
A man’s library is a sort of harem.
No furniture is as charming as books, even if you never open them.
A book that is shut is but a block.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Every condensation of a good book is a foolish mutilation.
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
What is written is merely the dregs of experience.
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
A good book is the best of friends, the same today as forever.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Without books God is silent.
A book is the only immortality.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Books are embalmed minds.
A good books is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from younder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead and makes us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
If a book come from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and authorcraft are of small account to that.
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.
Books are the metempsychosis; the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead are scattered, and none shall find them; but behold they are here.
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructions, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer.
A man’s library is a sort of harem.
No furniture is as charming as books, even if you never open them.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Every condensation of a good book is a foolish mutilation.
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
What is written is merely the dregs of experience.
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
A good book is the best of friends, the same today as forever.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Without books God is silent.
A book is the only immortality.
Choate.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
E.P. Whipple.
Books are embalmed minds.
Bovee.
A good books is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from younder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
T.L. Cuyler.
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
Plato.
I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
Charles Lamb.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead and makes us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Channing.
If a book come from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and authorcraft are of small account to that.
Carlyle.
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.
Johnson.
Books are the metempsychosis; the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead are scattered, and none shall find them; but behold they are here.
H.W. Beecher.
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructions, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Chambers.
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