life on planet earth on Books

Have you ever heard of the Greatest Books of the Western World collection? Published by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1954, this comprehensive series was edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer J. A...

A common question I’m hearing from folks these days is whether it is beneficial (or a moral imperative) to pay attention to the news. The Catholic nun and social activist Dorothy Day asked the same qu...

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Researchers used data on 3,635 people over 50 participating in a larger health study who had answered questions about reading. The scientists divided the sample into three groups: those who read no b...

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.