Quotes on Library Books

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

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

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

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.