Jules Renard: You enter a book like a train, with a few glances behind you, with some hesitation and with the boredom of changing plac

You enter a book like a train, with a few glances behind you, with some hesitati — Jules Renard

You enter a book like a train, with a few glances behind you, with some hesitation and with the boredom of changing places and ideas. How will the trip go? What will the book be like?

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When one reads the story of an exemplary life, such as that of Balzac, one alway — Jules Renard
Cracked plates last longer than intact plates. — Jules Renard
The moralists who extol work make me think of those fellows who have been deceiv — Jules Renard
Today I practice laughing for a good hour, to deserve the reputation of a gay wr — Jules Renard
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. — Lemony Snicket
Most books belong to the house and streets only, and in the fields their leaves — Henry David Thoreau
A house without books is like a room without windows. — Horace Mann
What a book a Devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, — Charles Darwin
Tulsidas’s poetry , like that of most other bhakti-saints , is assumed to reflec — Tulsidas
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind . — Mencius
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has giv — Abraham Lincoln
It is not good for a masterpiece to be fully known, at the first try. Future gen — Jules Renard