Quotes about Books
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
If you`re not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown-up. Even worse, you`ll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books. I`ve met a lot of people, I`ve read a lot of books, and that`s the absolute truth.
You see, one of the best things about reading is that you`ll always have something to think about when you`re not reading.
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.