You can never, never have too many books
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
Be awesome! Be a book nut!
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots...
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall o...
Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.
Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have been loosed.
Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced...
There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real...
It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer
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.
The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.
Of all things, I liked books best.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.