Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Reading does not make a man wise,it only makes him learned.”

— Anonymous

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

— John Milton

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

— Giovannino Guareschi

“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

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had…

— George Eliot

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

“He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him,”

— Edna O'Brien