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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

I'm wondering what to read next.

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.