It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

The book is the world's most patient medium.

Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen.

What a convenient and delightful world is this world of books!-If you bring to it not the obligations of the student, or look upon it as an opiate for idleness, but enter it rather with enthusiasm of the adventurer.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Books have their destinies.

No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?