Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Book

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; – not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.