Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
— Chambers
Chambers*
Books serve as tireless, unbiased counselors ready to teach us again and again.
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of pa…
— Dr. Channing
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a bu…
— Jeremy Collier
Dead counsellors are the most instructive, because they are heard with patience and reverence.
— Dr. Johnson
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
— Milton
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— Mark Twain
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. For much overcharges nature, a…
— Thomas Fuller
