books

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"A book is a gift you can open again and again."

"Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most."

"What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books."

"And what is the use of a book,"thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more."

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."

"A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy."

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book."

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

"As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!"

"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

"When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."

"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."