An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
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.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
A home without books is a body without soul.