Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them… I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon’s teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. John Milton The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Samuel Johnson Books without kind human readers are completely useless! Carl William Brown Don’t just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better. Epictetus Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. Moliere When we are alone and feeling low, a good book can listen to us and we can gather comfort, consolation and strength! Carl William Brown A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. Henry Ward Beecher Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. William Wordsworth No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. Harriet Beecher Stowe Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. René Descartes