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We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.

The Wise out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from the fall; In you the Future as the Past is given-- Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;-- Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven, Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.