human
Recollect that he who writes for fools finds an enormous audience.
gpt
If you devote your time to study, you will avoid all the irksomeness of this life.
human
It does not matter how many, but how good, books you have.
gpt
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
human
A book! oh, rare one! be not, as in this fangled world, a garment nobler than it covers.
gpt
My library was dukedom large enough.
human
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done.
gpt
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
human
We read books not so much for what they say as for what they suggest.
gpt
Employ your time in improving yourselves by other men's documents; so shall you come easily by what others have labored hard to win.
human
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
gpt
My reading has been much more in the direction of science than in the direction of general literature; and of such works in general literature as I have looked into, I know comparatively little, being an impatient reader, and usually soon satisfied.
human
I carried [across Africa] a great many books,--three loads, or about one hundred and eighty pounds' weight; but as my men lessened in numbers,--stricken by famine, fighting, and sickness,--one by one they were reluctantly thrown away, until finally, when less than three hundred miles from the Atlantic, I possessed only the Bible, Shakspeare, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Norie's Navigation, and the Nautical Almanac for 1877. Poor Shakspeare was afterwards burned by demand of the foolish people of Zinga. At Bonea, Carlyle and Norie and the Nautical Almanac were pitched away, and I had only the old Bible left.
gpt
It would be superfluous for any educated Englishman to say that he does not question the pre-eminence of such names as Bacon and Darwin.
human
Not many, but good books.
gpt
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.
human
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
gpt
In my study I am sure to converse with none but wise men; but abroad, it is impossible for me to avoid the society of fools.
human
If, in reading books, a man does not choose wisely, at any rate he has the chance offered him of doing so.
gpt
Books,--lighthouses erected in the sea of time.
human
Never was there a more healthful and health-ministering literature than that which he gave to the world. To go back to it from Flaubert and Daudet and Tolstoi is like listening to the song of the lark after the shrieking passion of the midnight pianoforte; nay, it is like coming out of the glare and heat and reeking vapor of a palace ball into a grove in the first light and music and breezes of the morning.... So far from stimulating an unhealthy taste, the enjoyment of this fiction created distinctly a taste for what is usually called 'solid reading,' and especially a love for that historical reading and study which has been a leading inspiration and solace of a busy life.
gpt
For us, along the great highways of time, those monuments stand,--those forms of majesty and beauty. For us those beacons burn through all the night.
human
During the mutiny and China war I carried a Testament, two volumes of Shakspeare that contained his best plays; and since then, when in the field, I have always carried a Book of Common Prayer, Thomas à Kempis, Soldier's Pocket Book, depending on a well-organized postal service to supply me weekly with plenty of newspapers.
gpt
These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.