Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Samuel Paterson
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. John Wesley
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. Mortimer J Adler
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. Martin Luther.
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 gone ourselves. E. M. Forster
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. Samuel Butler
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C S Lewis
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. William Ellery Channing
A blessed companion is a book, a book that is fitly chosen is a life-long friend. Douglas Jerrold
A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. Thomas a Kempis
When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it. Philip Roth
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara Tuchman
Books are humanity in print. Barbara Tuchman
Who learns most from a good book is the author. Jose Bergamin
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. Gunter Grass
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. Phillip Adams
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Anthony Burgess
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce
Books are a narcotic. Franz Kafka
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich Heine
Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book. Robert Southey
A home without books is a body without soul. Cicero
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. Jim Bishop
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. Allan Bloom
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
Some books are lies frae end to end. Robert Burns