“We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.”
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
“People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.”
“You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.”
“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.”
“Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.”
“A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.”
“In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.”
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.”
“I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.”
“I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.”
“A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.”
“Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.”
“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.”
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
“Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”
“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.”
“Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.”
“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
“My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.”
“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”
“All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”
“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
“There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.”
“You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.”