A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.  Mark Twain quotes Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. Ambrose Bierce quotes I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. E. M. Forster quotes I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came? Lawrence Clark Powell quotes Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. Lawrence Clark Powell quotes A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison quotes Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha quotes When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Christopher Morley quotes An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler quotes | 
