Quotes by Day, Clarence

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off >>

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else >>

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of fact >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get >>

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and t >>

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of >>

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence