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

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...

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

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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*.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Some books were no more than assumptions piled on assumptions…. Conclusions were reached on the basis of little or no data at all…. The whole case for the nondivine Jesus who stumbled into Jerusalem a...

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

We hear of wild new theories about Jesus. Every month or two some publisher comes up with a blockbuster saying that he was a New Age guru, an Egyptian freemason or a hippie revolutionary. Every year o...

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.