Book Quotes

The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already.