The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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