Books Quote by John Milton

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in…

— George Fillmore Swain

Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere…

— John Milton

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls…

— Lin Yutang

“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

“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading…

— Julian Barnes

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself…

— Wendy Lesser

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.”

— Paul Leicester Ford

“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