His Library Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. — William Penn
You can judge a man by the books in his library. — Mark Skousen
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. — Jorge Luis Borges
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that… — Robertson Davies
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in… — Francis Darwin
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed… — P.G. Wodehouse
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull… — Ray Bradbury
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… — John Kennedy Toole
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he… — Stacy Schiff
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. — Alan Garner
When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had… — Jennifer Egan
I heard his library burned down and that both books were destroyed-and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. — John Dawkins

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