Book Quote by Henry David Thoreau

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to…

— Louisa May Alcott

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished…

— Henry David Thoreau

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

— Henry David Thoreau

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I…

— Henry David Thoreau

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we…

— Henry David Thoreau

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have…

— Henry David Thoreau

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of…

— Henry David Thoreau

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a…

— Henry David Thoreau

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day…

— Henry David Thoreau

When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked…

— Lorene Cary