Quotes by Collier, Jeremy

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance an >>

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. >>

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. Pe >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Never read any book that is not a year old. >>

Read good, big important things. >>

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to >>

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy