Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. – Anna Quindlen
Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books. – William Faulkner
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. – Northrop Frye
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. – Henry Ward Beecher
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. – Thomas Carlyle
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. – William Faulkner
A man without a book is like a pirate without a ship – he will find no treasure, encounter no culture, and be grounded in both body and mind.
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. – Edward Gibbon
A book can be like a garden but it’s knowledge can be like a strong tree.
If you lay in your bed at night & haven’t learned anything new that day. Get out of the bed & read a book.
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. – John Lubbock
To you it might be a cheap notebook, but to me, it’s my best friend, which listens to me and reminds me when I need it the most.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book. – Mason Cooley
A good book has no ending. – R.D. Cumming
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – George Orwell
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. – Joseph Joubert
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. – James Russell Lowell
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness. – Jules Renard
To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. – John Aikin
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. – T.S. Eliot
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