Confessions of a Book-Lover Quotes

“Emerson tried to teach us that there can be infinite beauties in a little space—untold joys within a day—and he asks us to take short outlooks.”
― Maurice Francis Egan, Confessions of a Book-Lover

“The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.”
― Maurice Francis Egan, Confessions of a Book-Lover

“Each of us will make his own shelf of books. The book for me is the book that delights, attracts, soothes, or uplifts me.”
― Maurice Francis Egan, Confessions of a Book-Lover

“one of the most pleasant qualities of a reader who has lived among books all his life is that he does not attempt always to recommend books to others, or to preach about them.”
― Maurice Francis Egan, Confessions of a Book-Lover

“A constant reader is one who always returns to his first loves.”
― Maurice Francis Egan, Confessions of a Book-Lover

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other books. It is true that in a measure a book gives to us what we take to it; and we can only take much out of it when we approach the group of ministering authors who alone make life both cheerful and endurable.”
― Maurice Francis Egan, Confessions of a Book-Lover