Quotes about Books
My fondness for good books was my salvation.
— Teresa of Avila
Tears flooded her eyes and her heart beat heavily, but she knew it would be all right, because she knew that in the end the kind of power that was in these Books would never let her down.
— Ted Dekker
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.
— Julie Andrews
Divine guidance can be found in the books we read, the nature we enjoy, the people we meet, and the events we experience.
— Henri Nouwen
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
— Henry David Thoreau
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare
— Henry David Thoreau
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
— Henry David Thoreau
Not all books are as dull as their readers.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.
— Herman Melville
That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. "All is vanity." ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon's wisdom yet.
— Herman Melville