Books
are but waste paper unless we spend in action the
wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are
weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who
have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in
their conversation.
-- Jeremy Collier
1650-1726, British
Clergyman, Conjuror
Books,
like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like
friends, too, we should return to them again and
again for, like true friends, they will never fail
us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.
-- Charles Caleb
Colton
1780-1832, British
Sportsman Writer
Next
to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is
that of good books.
-- Charles Caleb
Colton
1780-1832, British
Sportsman Writer
A
person of mature years and ripe development, who is
expecting nothing from literature but the
corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find
satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to
occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and
ambitious students are not content with it. They
seek the excitement because they are capable of the
growth that it accompanies.
-- Charles Horton
Cooley
1864-1929, American
Sociologist
