Books Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had…

— George Eliot

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.”

— B.R. Myers

“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“Very often the idler is but a man to whom it is repugnant to spend all his life making the eighteenth part of a…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.”

— Cassandra Clare

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so,…

— Albert Camus

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner