Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. (Mark Twain)
Only your friends steal your books. (Voltaire)

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ( Austin Phelps )

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.(Seneca)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. (Sir Richard Steele)

A room without books is like a body without a soul. (Seneca)

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. ( George Bernard Shaw)

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.(Francis Bacon)

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.(Mark Twain)

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ( Henry David Thoreau)

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde)

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A good book has no ending. (R.D. Cumming)