Quotes by Howells, William Dean

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. >>

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. >>

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pi >>

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. >>

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. >>

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean