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"I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page."
"This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues."
"Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose."
"In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views."
"It is with a good book as it is with good company."
"I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use."
"The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost."
"Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books."
"The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books."
"The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man."
"Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit."
"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."
"An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits."
"The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed."
"Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves."
"It is a tie between men to have read the same book."
"A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed."
"a good reader makes a good book"
"Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date."
"Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years."
