Book Quote by James Bryce Download Open image ““The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take away from it.”” — James Bryce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
“The worth of a book is too be measured by what you can carry away from it.” — James Bryce Copy Share Image
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second value is… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than their real… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
“One of the most valuable things you can gain from any book is a list of other books that are worth reading.” — Dave Hoover Copy Share Image
“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.” — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.” — Stuart Aken Copy Share Image
“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,'… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
