Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away.
EMILY DICKINSON
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
AUSTIN PHELPS
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
THOMAS CARLYLE
We read to know we're not alone.
C. S. LEWIS
A book is an axe to the frozen sea around us.
FRANZ KAFKA
A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Worthy books are not companions — they are solitudes. We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold, and keep.
EUGENE FIELD
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
JOHN RUSKIN
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
ROY BLOUNT, JR.
It
had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books
had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming
up of themselves like grass.
EUDORA WELTY
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on
Treasure Island... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every
day of your life.
WALT DISNEY
The
greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it
distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and
experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK
There are books... which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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