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
A vivid list of metaphors describing how a good book provides counsel, resources, and companionship.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
— Bulwer
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
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
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
— Benjamin Franklin
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
— Barrett
