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Quotes of the Day for 11 May 2001 – Books
A reader contemplating opening a bookstore requested quotes on booksellers. Alas, I couldn't find much in the database, but I readily found many references to the treasure on the shelves.
The quotes:
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been, it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. They are the choicest possessions of men.
- Thomas Carlyle
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
- Edward P. Morgan
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.
- Andre Sinyavsky
A book is a garden carried in the pocket.
- Chinese proverb
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before.
- Cliff Fadiman
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