Books

Famous quotes containing the word books:

“My books and instruments shall be my company,
On them to look and practise by myself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as “spectacles” to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.... The learned are mere literary drudges.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“In books one finds golden mansions and women as beautiful as jewels.”
—Chinese proverb.