Art Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them”

— Daniel Defoe

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds…

— Samuel Johnson

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no…

— Samuel Johnson

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that,…

— Junot Diaz

“Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use…

— Edith Wharton

“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is…

— Umberto Eco

The virtue of books is to be readable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

— John Green

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

— Gary Wolf

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

— Joseph Addison

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of…

— Edgar Allan Poe