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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

The book you don't read won't help.
Jim Rohn

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Jim Rohn

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

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

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

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch Hedberg

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven Wright