Books Quotes
Words are but the signs of ideas.
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.
A moment of thinking is an hour of words.
Words are the counters of wise man, and the money of fools.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the words.
If all the crowns of Europe were placed at my disposal on condition that I should abandon my books and studies, I should spurn the crowns away and stand by the books.
The desire to write grows with writing.
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst.
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
With words we govern men.
Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
Words spoken may fly away... The writing-brush leaves its mark.
Bitter words are good medicine... Sweet words carry infection.