Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

Books succeed, And lives fail.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"