A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside US.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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