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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

» Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) British poet, critic, and philosopher

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

» Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English author And polymath

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

» Stephen Hawking (1942-?) English Physicist

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

A book that is shut is but a block.

» Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) British author and intellectual

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

» Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) British clergyman and author

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

Lexicographer: a Writerof dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same wa

» Susan Sontag (1933-2004) American Writerand filmaker

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

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