My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates‘ loot on Treasure Island…

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Don’t join the book burners!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man‘s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

More people should use their library.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Words are the voice of the heart.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Evelyn: Look, I… I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O’Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I… am a librarian. The Mummy (1999)

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.