I can’t live without books    ~Thomas Jefferson~

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.  ~ Mark Twain~

 I find television very educational.  Every time somebody switches it on I go into the other room and read a good book."  ~Groucho Marx~

Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
~Oliver Wendall Holmes~

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.                   ~Henry David Thoreau~

 You can't tell a book by its movie.  ~Louis A Safian~

 Man builds no structure which outlives book. ~Eugene Fitch Ware ~   

 A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.  ~Franz Kafka~

Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.  Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.  ~Christopher Morley~

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.  ~Abraham Lincoln~

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.  ~Kenko Yoshida~

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.  ~Jessamyn West~

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.  ~George Steiner~

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.  ~James Russell Lowell~

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.  ~Jesse Lee Bennett~

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity.  When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.  ~Washington Irving~