"To buy books would be a good..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.”

“The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.”

“A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.”

“No book was ever written down by any but itself.”

“I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.”

“One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.”

“If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.”

“How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.”

“Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.”