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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 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) Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. - Henry Ward Beecher Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep. - Henry Ward Beecher 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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