- WHEN WE ARE COLLECTING BOOKS, WE ARE COLLECTING HAPPINESS. - VINCENT STARRETT
- You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C.S. Lewis
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde
- A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka
- Medicine for the soul. - Inscription over the Library at Thebes
- There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ~Henry Ward Beecher
- A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
- Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone
- A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero
- 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. - Lemony Snicket
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