books on Pleasure

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

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.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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

The Strain of Time Time marches forward for all of us, doesn’t it? There are 365 days in the Gregorian calendar. There are 365 days in the Liturgical calendar. While the respective beginnings and en...

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

The Puritans in American Literature “Welcome to Honors American Literature!” You probably haven’t heard that line since high school, right? After his first couple of weeks of school, my boy came home...

A Great (and Weighty) Work of Literature That Will Delight Like Moby Dick and War and Peace , Les Misérables is a hefty novel. Affectionately known as the ‘Brick’ for its formidable length, it c...

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

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.

If you like quotes, might I suggest *entire books*.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

It is estimated that over 80 percent of the books published in any given year are about the self.

Sir Isaac Newton was one of the great scientists of all time. Most men of science today agree that his great book Principia is the greatest scientific book ever written. Yet of his achievemen...

The difference between the right word and the almost right word, is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The bookshop has a thousand books, all colors, hues, and tinges, and every cover is a door that turns on magic hinges.

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...

Benjamin Franklin, an avid lover of books, penned an epitaph for himself that he hoped would one day mark his grave: The body of Benjamin Franklin, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn...

The exiled Niccolo Machiavelli actually changed into his best clothes to enter into his nightly reading conversation with the ancients.

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.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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...

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

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

If Hollywood decided to make a movie about your life, what would it look like? What genre would it be? Action/Adventure? Drama? Comedy? Who would play you? Tom Cruise? Denzel Washington? For most of u...

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.