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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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

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

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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

'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

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

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

Every burned book enlightens the world.
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

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

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx