Libraries And Reading Quotes

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Words are the voice of the heart.

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

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

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.