Quotes on Libraries Books And Reading

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Words are the voice of the heart.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.