We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
Still round the corner there may wait
My library is an archive of longings.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.