"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."–Sir Francis Bacon "Beware of the man of one book."–Saint Thomas Aquinas "A room without books is like a body without a soul."–Marcus Tullius Cicero "A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books."–François Maurice Mitterrand "From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."–Helen Hayes "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
–Mark Twain "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
–John Burroughs
"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food."
–Desiderius Erasmus | 
