This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing-gum.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book ...

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Even at her loneliest she liked being among books, although she was sometimes depressed to see how much there was to read that she hadn't.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.