Books

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit".
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested".
"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books".
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life."
"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."
"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought."
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers."
"The true University of these days is a Collection of Books."
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
"Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."
"Never judge a book by its movie."
"A book might be written on the injustice of the just."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
"A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations."
"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
"Books had instant replay long before televised sports."
"It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them."
"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
"The newest books are those that never grow old."
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
"Books are not men and yet they stay alive."
"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
"A wicked book cannot repent."