William Wordsworth Quotes

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

A library implies an act of faith.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Books are embalmed minds.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Books are sepulchres of thought.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

A book is the only immortality.