I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

People die, but books never die.

It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.