Quotes about Books

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.