Quotes about Books

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

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

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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

Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope[5] and the books of the sophists.

But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.