Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

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

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Read in order to live.

It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.

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

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.