There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors are finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Colton
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles Eliot
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry Ford
Don't borrow or lend books. Buy them as often as possible and build a library you have personalized with markings for future reference.
Zig Ziglar
The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something.
Jim Rohn
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
Tom Peters
Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.
Clive Staples Lewis
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
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