Book Quote by Isaac Barrow

He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter

— Isaac Barrow

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

— Isaac Barrow

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

— Anonymous

He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

— Isaac Barrow

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, and effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

— Barrow

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not…

— Eugene Field

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Book love, my friend, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.…

— Anthony Trollope

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann