Book Quotes

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection,

not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

My books are like water;

those of the great geniuses are wine.

(Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas.

I've only ever had one.

Ideally a book would have no order to it,

and the reader would have to discover his own.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket

book not only suffers by it,

but your preparations are lost

and a season passes away unimproved.

Each age,

it is found,

must write its own books;

or rather,

each generation for the next succeeding.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books

should be such a popular fellow?

Beware the man of a single book.

O Day of days when we can read!

The reader and the book,

either without the other is naught.

Reading about nature is fine,

but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully,

he can learn more than what is in books,

for they speak with the voice of God.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by

every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap

let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;

let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs;

let it be preached from the pulpit,

proclaimed in legislative halls,

and enforced in courts of justice.

No books ever go into my laboratory.

The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me

the moment I am inspired to create something new.

Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless.

Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I don’t go by the rule book;

I lead from the heart.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Good friends,

good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.

Just get people to stop reading them.