Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

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

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud

The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Voltaire

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan