Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. Jesse Lee Bennett |
Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. Bulstrode Whitlock |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.Charles W. Eliot |
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life. Helen Exley |
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams |
Books have to be read It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
E.M. Forster |
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. Abraham Lincoln |
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. Jeremy Collier |
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.Peter Ustinov |
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books. Henry David Thoreau |