Even at her loneliest she liked being among books, although she was sometimes depressed to see how much there was to read that she hadn't.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Books are nourishment to the mind.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that writes it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

There is no worse robber than a bad book.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.