Book Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

— Jane Austen

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

— Antonio Gaudi

'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

— Felicity Jones

“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person…

— Alan Jacobs

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've…

— Alexandra Fuller

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

— Anonymous

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other…

— Maurice Francis Egan

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

— Thomas A. Edison

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson