It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Bread milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling and break forth into other beauty besides they are her laughs.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries fire.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

The groundwork for all happiness is good health.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.