“ Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books. Richard Peck
“ There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. Robert G. Ingersoll
“ She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all. Sarah Beth Durst
“ It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. C.S. Lewis
“ Weigh thou therefore their wickedness now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found anymore. Compton Gage
“ Ponder now by thyself, how great fruit of wickedness the grain of evil seed had brought forth. And when the ears shall be cut down, which are without number, how great a floor shall they fill? Compton Gage
“ Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed. Compton Gage
“ Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. Alberto Manguel
“ It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher. E.L. Konigsburg
“ How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it f… Ray Bradbury
