The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
We read books to find out who we are.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
There is no frigate like a book
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Don't judge a book by its cover
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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