
A book is meant to be read from beginning to end but it’s best understood from end to beginning
—Winston Church
Thoughts on reading, writing, and publishing
A book is meant to be read from beginning to end but it’s best understood from end to beginning
—Winston Church
Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.
— Thomas Fuller
It is from books that wise [people] derive consolation in the troubles of life.
— Victor Hugo
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams,
— Henry W. Longfellow
With its allusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of beginnings, story without end,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed—their present state.
— Alexander Pope
[A person] that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
— Isaac Barrow
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen, the more select the more enjoyable.
— Amos Bronson Alcott