“For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life….”

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”

“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”

“By prayer I mean not merely prayer from the mouth, but of the mind and heart, of all the powers of the soul and senses of the body. This is the prayer prayed by the soul who wills and desires to find this divine light, studying, meditating and reading without cease in the Book and the more-than-a-book of Life. This Book of Life is the entire life of Christ while he lived as a mortal on earth.”

“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

“Death is more universal than life. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.”

“Death is more universal than life. Everyone dies but not everyone lives.”

“Because he had seen much of life, his last and greatest work, The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, is more than a collection of facts: it is a book of wisdom and experience, a treatise on the conduct of life, a commentary on human destiny.”