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

— Joseph Brodsky

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

— Vera Nazarian

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

— Dr. Bacon

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon thos…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is a fine passage in a book by the late Dr. Henry van Dyke. “Suppose,” he writes, “someone asked for a definition …

— The Kalends

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding th…

— H. Mann