A room without books is like a body without a soul.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.