BOOKS

Saturday, July 08, 2006

If you read my blog on a regular basis, you know I love books. Today, I stole the following quotes from Victoria Gaines' great blog.

Quote Attic: On Books
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books…. Children learn to read being in the presence of books. ~ Horace Mann (1796-1859)
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~ anonymous, Chinese saying
It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not. ~ Epistolae Morale, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (3 B.C.-65 A.D.)
A little library growing each year is an honorable part of a man’s history. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.~ Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library ~ Shelby Foote
No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.~ John Alfred Lanford (1823-1903)
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar’s study or library, is to look at his books. One gets the notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book shelves. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life. ~ Ray Douglas Bradbury