Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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.
Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I... am a librarian. The Mummy (1999)
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
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