Book Quote by Richard Henry Stoddard

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

— Edwin Louis Cole

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

— Baltasar Gracian

“It is true that the genius of assembled men or of peoples is quite different from a man's character in private, and that one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

— Mark Skousen

A man will be known by his books.

— William Martin

The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive…

— Anonymous

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

— Richard Dawkins

“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

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . .…

— William Wilberforce