Books are nourishment to the mind. [ Italian Proverb ]

Seek your life's nourishment in your life's work. [ Phillips Brooks ]

How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence
They have their nourishment? [ William Shakespeare ]

Men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment, dare bite the best. [ William Shakespeare ]

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. [ Shakespeare ]

Read and take your nourishment in at your eyes; shut up your mouth and chew the cud of understanding. [ Congreve ]

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. [ Addison ]

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. [ Fuller ]

In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him. [ Carlyle ]

Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we may say, the smallest of all faculties that other men are at the pains to repay with any esteem. It is directly opposed to thought, to knowledge, properly so called; its nourishment and essence is denial, which hovers on the surface, while knowledge dwells far below. [ Carlyle ]

Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]