Adversity Quote by Bill Vaughan

“Books are essential nourishment to the mind.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.

— Michael Dirda

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless”

— Victor Hugo

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

— Mason Cooley

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the…

— William Butler Yeats

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to…

— Jeremy Collier

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Books are gems. Books which leaves your spine aching from sitting up all night reading them; Books whose characters live in the bright corners…

— Philip Womack

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

— John Green