There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also find the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.

Books give not wisdom where was none before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.