Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

We live in an odd world, where books are filled with expressions of love, and lives devoid of it.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

It is what you read when you don t have to that determines what you will be when you can t help it

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it?

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

She had just turned a page in her life - no, more accurately, she had started a new book entirely.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.