The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. -Charles W. Eliot
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. -Chinese Proverb
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B. F. Skinner
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark twain
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. - Samuel Johnson
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. -Henry David Thoreau
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot live without books. -Thomas Jefferson
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. - Thomas Jefferson
Books are humanity in spirit - Barbara Tuchman
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. -Oscar Wilde
A house without books is like a room without windows. -Heinrich Mann
There are worse crimes than burning books.One of them is not reading them. - Brodsky Joseph
Of writing many books there is no end. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' - Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865)
A truly great books should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies (In Grant, The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies)
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