Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

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.
Horace Mann

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer

Read much, but not many books.
Gustave Flaubert

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl Sandburg

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow