It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Richard Baxter Quotes

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best....

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best....

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best....

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best....