All BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Quotes about “Books”

“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
“For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”
“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.”
“I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.”
“Women are books, and men the readers be.”
“Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.”
“Read much, but not too many books.”
“The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.”
“All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”
“Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.”
“Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.”
“My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.”

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