Think before you speak. Read before you think.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Books may well be the only true magic.
I cannot live without books.
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.