Book Quotes

"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books."
~ Thomas Carlyle

"The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom; And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former."
~ Samuel Smiles

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
~ Mortimer Adler