Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Jeremy Collier
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
Abraham Lincoln
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can
William Feather
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
John Greenleaf Whittier
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Robert Gissing
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Robert Gissing
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
John Ruskin