". . . a library tends to become a veritable Frankenstein, eating up elbow-room and bearing down like an avalanche on space, long before its creator realizes it to be no longer his slave." Thomas Moult: Introduction to Spencer's Forty Years in My Bookshop

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

~Lord Henry P. Brougham

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." Logan Pearsall Smith.

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.” - Horace Mann

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - GK Chesterton

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

--Jim Rohn

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars.

You can borrow that from your kids!

--Jim Rohn

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

--Walt Disney

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet,

but his books were read'.

--Hillaire Belloc

I have fallen in love a thousand times in my lifetime.

All which have been with books

--Unknown

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

--Eudora Welty

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

--Gilbert Highet

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

--Unknown

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

--Gore Vidal

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life.

--Mark Twain

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

--Groucho Marx

"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." Stephan Mallarme

"The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page." Anonymous

"It took people 10 years to figure out that while stuck in a morning commute, they could be listening to a book." Publishers Weekly - Paul Hilts

"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson

"A good library is a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet."Samuel Niger

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

"The public library is the most dangerous place in town. John Ciardi

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."Henry Ward Beecher

"If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.

Wendell Ford

"Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn." Leo Tolstoy

"The closest thing we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.

Ashleigh Brilliant

"A circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Books may well be the only true magic." Alice Hoffman

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return." Imaginary Homelands - Salman Rushdie

"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."

Vincent van Gogh

“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

"For books are more than books. They are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives." Amy Lowell