Book Quotes

Why is The Origin of Species such a great book? First of all, because it convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: it provides a vast and well-chosen body of evidence showing that existing animals and plants cannot have been separately created in their present forms, but must have evolved from earlier forms by slow transformation.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

Stories of perseverance and extraordinary courage always inspire me. This piece in a book called Everyday Greatness by Stephen R. Covey has remained with me ever since.

Coming into contact with a good book and possessing it, is indeed an everlasting enrichment.