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

— Joseph Brodsky

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled…

— Dr. Johnson

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

— Mark Twain

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

— Walt Disney