| Author |
Quotes |
| John Milton | Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. |
| John Milton | Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe. |
| Joseph Addison | Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. |
| Katherine Mansfield | The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books |
| Lance Morrow | One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction. |
| Margaret Fuller | A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. |
| Mark Twain | My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. |
| Mark Twain | The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. |
| Mark Twain | My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water. |
| Old Proverb | A wicked book cannot repent. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | 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. |
| Paxton Hood | The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul." |
| Philip James Bailey | Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Some books leave us free and some books make us free. |
| Raoul Vaneigem | Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. |
| Richard McKenna | Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. |
| Robert Chambers | Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. |
| Rufus Choate | A book is the only immortality. |
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