“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.John Milton
“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.John Ruskin
“To whom am I to present my pretty new book, freshly smoothed off with dry pumice stone? To you, Cornelius: for you used to think that my trifles were worth something, long ago.Gaius Valerius Catullus
“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
“Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me, From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. William Shakespeare