501 Quotes by Book

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey’s back.