There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly wrought out by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.
Johnson
Even the weakest book is remarkable if it draws on no earlier thinkers at all.
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Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to…
— Addison
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
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things…
— Bartholini
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
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale …
— Bulwer
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— Mark Twain
