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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

» Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French Writerand philosopher

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

» Jean Rostand (1894-1977) French biologist and philosopher

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

» Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

» John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2007) Canadian-American economist

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

» John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, man of letters

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

» John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, man of letters

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

» John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, man of letters

A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.

» John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, man of letters

A book worth reading is worth buying.

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

» Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) French satiric moralist

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

» Jean Rostand (1894-1977) French biologist and philosopher

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

» John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I kn

» John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, man of letters

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

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