Anybody there? Surviving the winter? Im right in the 2010 blizzard area, and the snow is finally starting to melt. How is everybody doing?
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
When we are collecting books,
We are collecting happiness.
Where is human nature so weak as
In the bookstore?
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.
There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends, and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying,
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if there is any left I buy food and clothes.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of the day makes that day happier