"In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the b...












The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
More Henry David Thoreau quotes
"It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and...
"It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
"The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered....
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal...
"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 ...
"It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and...
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
"A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the ...