A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.
Unknown
A dirty book is rarely dusty.
Unknown
There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
Joe Ryan
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William Hazlitt
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Franz Kafka
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Abraham Lincoln
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Bern Williams
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.
Charles B. Fairbanks
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott