Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“...a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments that might…

— Alain de Botton

“Rarely in life do you find an object that retains its ability to continuously impact regardless of how many times it has been used.…

— Orly Wahba

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is…

— Anonymous

“People kept their books, she thought, not because they were likely to read them again but because these objects contained the past--the texture of…

— Tom Rachman

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”

— Lee shippey

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of…

— Ezra Pound