Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
The book you don't read won't help.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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