Book Quote by Juvenal

“The book the man is reading is the Word of God, the Bible. It has become both the focus of and the reason for…

— John Bunyan

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their…

— William Ellery Channing

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the…

— Joaquin Miller

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.' 'In withstanding of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we…

— Thomas Carlyle

“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought that in…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may…

— Marquis de Sade

“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however…

— Randy Alcorn