Edward Gibbon Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Reading, Hero

• Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Reading, Thinking

• Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Book, Writing

  Edward Gibbon (1814). “The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.56

• My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

  Edward Gibbon

  Love, Book, Reading

• To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Temptation, London

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.97

• In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Book, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.1

• The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by the innovations of fashion, superior merit, or public authority.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Book, Interesting

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.1116, Modern Library

• A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Taste, Glory

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian”, p.330

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