The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson