Books - Quotes
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.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.