Quotes by Chambers, Oswald

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never g >>

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and alway >>

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold i >>

One man is as good as another until he has written a book. >>

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-act >>

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald