Books are humanity in print.~ Barbara W Tuchman
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.~ Franz Kafka
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.~ William Hazlitt
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.~ Clifton Fadiman
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.~ Oscar Wilde
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.~ Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833
Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.~ Christopher Morley
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Among my collection of signed books are volumes given to me by writers who were also friends along with others by writers, actors and celebr...
