Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Coming into contact with a good book and possessing it, is indeed an everlasting enrichment.

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.