Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.
I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.
I cannot live without books.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.