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Medicine for the soul. - Unattributed Author, Diodorus Siculus (I, 49, 3), inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. - Joseph Addison, in the "Spectator", no. 166 No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. - Joseph Addison A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers. - Amos Bronson Alcott My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages. - Amos Bronson Alcott One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned. - Amos Bronson Alcott Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey. - Amos Bronson Alcott That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. - Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books) She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. - Louisa May Alcott Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old books to read. - Alfonso V, Alfonso of Aragon, the Magnanimous A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.] - Saint Thomas Aquinas Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books. - Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury), Philobiblon (ch. I) You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand. - Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury), Philobiblon (ch. XV) Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, and you shall need no other comfort. - Francis Bacon Books will speak plain when counselors blanch. - Francis Bacon Good books are true friends. - Francis Bacon The images of men's wits and .knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. - Francis Bacon But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. - Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (bk. I, Advantages of Learning) Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon, Essay--Of Studies Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. - Francis Bacon, Proposition touching Amendment of Laws Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Village Feast, Evening) The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which. - Sir James Matthew Barrie He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. - Isaac Barrow Without books God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian dark-ness. - Thomas Bartholin That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Elder Brother (act I, sc. 2, l. 177) Displaying page 1 of 15 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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