As well almost kill a man, as kill a good book; for the life of the one is but a few short years, while that of the othe…

— Milton

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Joseph Brodsky

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

— Benjamin Franklin

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whos…

— Milton

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

— Mark Twain

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.

— H. W. Beecher