“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.”

“When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language...”

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public w...”

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”

“Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.”

“...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.”

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone.”

“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.”

“A good book is an event in my life.”

“With a book he was regardless of time.”

“Without story books is like a person with no soul.”