Rooks are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

— E. P. Whipple

Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to…

— Addison

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over the…

— J. Swartz

Books are the metempsychosis; the symbol and prophecy of immortality. The dead are scattered, and no one shall find them…

— H. W. Beecher

A book is the only immortality.

— R. Choate

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