Inspirational Quotes on Books

“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”

“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”

“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”

“There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.”

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

“Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.”

“As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.”

“If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.”

“Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.”

“Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind.”

“Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.”

“Many a preacher misses the mark because, though he knows books, he does not know men.”

“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”

“In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.”

“Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

“What a world of wit is here packed together! I know not whether the sight doth more dismay or comfort me. It dismays me to think that here is so much I cannot know; it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should. Blessed be the memory of those who have left their blood, their spirits, their lives, in these precious books, and have willingly wasted themselves into these during monuments, to give light unto others.”

“A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.”

“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”

“If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning.”