"In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. "—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"How am I to sing your praise,
Happy chimney-corner days,
Sitting safe in nursery nooks
Reading picture story-books?"
—Robert L. Stevenson.
"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors." —Dr. Samuel Johnson.
"The enterprise of certain enlightened publishers has taught them to work for the million and that is a very important fact." —Wm. E. Gladstone.
"In a government like ours, we must look to the intelligence of the masses for the safety and permanence of our free institutions. "—George Washington.
"I pity the man who is too poor and mean to buy books for his children. You might as well refuse them bread and meat." —John Calhoun.
"A wise mother and good books enabled me to suoceed in life. She was poor, but never too poor to buy books. It is a mean sort of poverty that starves the mind to feed the body."—Henry Clay.
"Schools teach as the rudiments of language, but books teach us how to think. Therefore, no one can be truly educated unless he is a reader of books. "—Benjamin Franklin.
"I cannot think the glorious world of mind
Embalmed in books, which I can only see
In patches, though I read my moments blind
Is to be lost to me.
I have a thought that, as we live eleswhere,
So will those dear creations of the brain;
That what I lose unread, I'll find, and there
Take up my joy again.
O then the bliss of blisses, to be freed
From all wants by which the world is driven;
With liberty and endless time to read
The libraries of Heaven!"
—Robert Leighton.
"I favor a general system of public education, also a proper encouragment of the circulation of books among the people, for no one can be truly educated unless he reads and thinks."-Thomas Jefferson.
"Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant during the frosts of winter."—Horace Mann.
"In a polite age, almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than from the pulpit." Oliver Goldsmith.
"Educate! Educate! Educate! Send books throughout the land; educate the people, and we can bid defiance to the schemes of tyrants."—Patriok Henry.
"My opportunities in youth for obtaining an education were limited but I had the great good fortune of being well supplied with useful books. These gave me my success in life."—Daniel Webster.
"The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology or defence. It is a good thing in itself; a possession to be thankful for, to rejoice over, to be proud of, and to sing praises for. With this love in his heart no man is ever poor; ever without friends, or the means of making his life lovely, beautiful, and happy."—J. A. Langford.
"To me, indeed, the light of the sun, the day, and light itself, would be joyless and bitter, if I had not something to read; if I lacked the works of the most illustrious men; for, in comparison with their preciousness and delight, wealth and pleasure, and all the things that men prize, are mean and trifling." —Leo Allatius.
"A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies."—Gibbon.
"Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight."—Baron Monteequien.
"The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one."--Oliver Goldsmith.
"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select the more enjoyable."—A. Bronson Alcott.
"Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burthen to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things; compose our cares, and our passions; and lay our disappointments asleep."—Jeremy Collier.
"Books are the depository of everything that is most honorable to man. Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. He that loves reading has everything within his reach."—William Godwin.
"This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pats to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that God has prepared for his creatures. Other pleasures may be more ecstatic; but the habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know, in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade."—Anthony Trollope.
"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book!—a message to us from the dead—from human soul, whom we never saw, who lived, perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us, vivify us, teach us, comfort us, offer their hearts to us as brothers."—Charles Kingsley.
"What joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty, as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness." —Theodore Parker
"Books, dear books, ever been, and are my comforts, morn and night, adversity, prosperity, at home, abroad, health, sickness—good or ill report, the same firm friends; the same refreshments rich, and source of consolation."—William Dodd.
"In books we find the dead as it were living; in books we forsee things to come. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger. If you approach them, they are not asleep, if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble, if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you." —Richard De Bury.
"If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it servicable until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so than you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armory, or a housewife bring the spice she needs for her store. We call ourselves a rich nation, and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries!"—John Buskin.
"Books make up no small part of human happiness."—Frederick the Great.
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