Quotes by Gibbon, Edward

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has >>

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particul >>

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all t >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency >>

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction >>

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enoug >>

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward